The torch

I don’t think that reading a court list has ever made me laugh before, but the entry below from the Supreme Court of NSW last year did. I don’t remember the date that this appeared but it is genuine. I have also done a case search to see how Tosha went in...

An important tax issue #2 – cakes

Reading tax cases is generally something that should be avoided at all costs, however, it appears that they are a rich source of (amusing) definitional issues. The issue which occupied the High Court in the 1932 case of Herbert Adams v Federal Commissioner of Taxation...

An important tax issue: are fish livestock?

Inspired by my previous post about statutory definitions of stock, I came across the 1949 High Court case of Deputy Commissioner of Taxation v Zest Manufacturing. The issue before the High Court was whether the respondent’s fish food fell within a sales tax...

Good Faith Negotiations

There has been some debate for some time about the role of “good faith” and good faith negotiations in contract law in Australia. These views were recently canvassed by the NSW Court of Appeal in United Group Rail Services Limited v Rail Corporation New...