Privacy Law: Evolving Cause of Action – Breach of Confidence

Breach of confidence is a common cause of action in matters involving intrusion of privacy. The doctrine is not statute-based but arises from common law (i.e. judge-made law) and equity. To establish a claim for breach of confidence, based on the principles in Coco v A N Clark (Engineers) Ltd [1968] FSR 415, a plaintiff [...]

2025-05-20T06:01:30+00:00May 20th, 2025|Data Protection|Comments Off on Privacy Law: Evolving Cause of Action – Breach of Confidence

Protecting Your Brand Beyond Borders

In today’s digital and global economy, your brand can reach customers in dozens of countries, sometimes without you even trying. But while your business may expand effortlessly across borders, your trademark rights don’t. That’s why securing an international trade mark, in addition to your Australian trade mark, is a smart and often necessary step for [...]

2025-05-19T01:24:44+00:00May 19th, 2025|Intellectual Property|Comments Off on Protecting Your Brand Beyond Borders

Unpaid Present Entitlements and the Implications of Bendel

BackgroundPresent entitlements are rights that a beneficiary of a trust has to share in the trust’s income. The two defining features of a present entitlement over trust income are that the beneficiary:• has an indefeasible and vested interest in the relevant trust income; and• has an equitable right to demand payment of the relevant trust [...]

2025-05-12T01:21:47+00:00May 12th, 2025|Uncategorized|Comments Off on Unpaid Present Entitlements and the Implications of Bendel
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