Litigation & Dispute Resolution
Our team is known for its strategic thinking, commercial acumen and strong advocacy. We act in a wide range of disputes with a trusted, pragmatic approach tailored to each client’s needs.
Capabilities
We act for individuals and both large and small businesses in commercial litigation matters. We take a strategic, solutions-focused approach, and are committed to ensuring the best outcome for our clients. Our objective is to, where possible, achieve early and effective commercial solutions without resorting to litigation.
Our expertise includes:
- general commercial litigation and advice
- contractual disputes
- property and leasing disputes
- mediation and arbitration
- joint venture, partnership and shareholder disputes
- regulatory investigations and enforcement, particularly ACCC and ASIC
- competition and consumer law disputes
- franchise disputes
- white-collar crime defence and fraud investigations
- insolvency and bankruptcy proceedings
- injunction proceedings
- intellectual property disputes, and
- rural law.
We appreciate the costs associated with being involved in litigation and strive to ensure that our fees are reasonable and in proportion to our client’s desired outcome. Our lawyers have experience in a wide range of jurisdictions and we pride ourselves on being able to think ‘outside the box’.
Recognition
Our Litigation & Dispute resolution team is recognised in the dispute resolution (litigation) category of the Legal 500 Asia Pacific (2026). They are also recognised in the alternative dispute resolution category of The Best Law Firms in Australia (2027).
INSIGHTS
Statutory demands in the digital age: can email be effective service?
Litigation
Debt
Statutory Demand
Dispute resolution
Corporations Act 2001
debtor
digital
digital age
Pay up, kick up or be wound up: the 411 on statutory demands
Debt
Statutory Demand
dispute resoloution
Corporations Act 2001
offsetting claim
debtor
Contempt in civil proceedings: responding to breaches of Court orders
contempt
contempt in court
contempt in civil proceedings
breaches of court orders
examples of contempt in court
AI – what if there is too much artificial and not enough intelligence?
artificial intelligence
AI
AI Regulation
AI risks
Victorian Supreme Court
GLAD manufacturer fined $8.25m for misleading green claims
Litigation
greenwashing
dispute resoloution
environmental claims
greenwashing penalties
Class action update: High Court settles debate on “soft” class closure orders
Lendlease
Federal Court
class action settlement
class action
Privilege not waived for documents voluntarily disclosed to ASIC: latest ruling from the Federal Court in ASIC v Macleod [2024] FCAFC 174
ASIC
legal professional privilege
legal professional privilege protocol
ASIC v Noumi Ltd [2024] FCA 349
LPP
Noumi decision
High Court rules trustees have no fiduciary duty to predecessors
High Court
trustees
fiduciary duty
Naaman v Jaken Properties Australia Pty Limited
Federal Court rules PayPal’s contract term unfair: key takeaways & implications for business contracts
Australian Consumer Law
ASIC
small businesses
UCT
unfair contract term
Australian Securities and Investments Commission
ACL
fee error term
PayPal
In good faith: how seeking legal advice can shield you from civil penalties
Dispute resolution
Corporations Act 2001
litigation law
Block Earner
civil penalties
legal advice
Letting Sleeping Ducks lie: Supreme Court looks under the bed but finds no shareholder oppression
Dispute resolution
litigation law
BBHF Pty Ltd v Sleeping Duck Pty Ltd & Ors
Breach of agreement
economic downturn
shareholder opression
Sleeping Duck
Class actions: is the funding model in Australia inching towards US-style contingency fees?
class actions
litigation law
contingency fees
litigation and dispute resolution
litigation funding model
R&B Investments Pty Ltd (Trustee) v Blue Sky (Reserved Question)
SCFO
Solicitors’ Common Fund Order
Emojis are free – how you use them may carry a price
ASIC
Australian Securities and Investments Commission
Burrows v Houda
defamation
emojis
litigation & dispute resolution
South West Terminal Ltd. v Achter Land 2023
Are you a risk to biosecurity? Director liability for breaches of the Biosecurity Act 2015
Biosecurity Act 2015
breaches of biosecurity
DAFF
Department of Agriculture Fisheries and Forestry
director's liability
food importation
importing food into Australia
Privilege waived for documents voluntarily disclosed to ASIC
ASIC
legal professional privilege
Australian Securities and Investments Commission
litigation law
ASIC v Noumi Ltd [2024] FCA 349
VDA
voluntary disclosure agreement
waiver of privilege
Damages by another name: recovering litigation funding costs in class actions
Litigation
Dispute resolution
class action
litigation funding
ASIC’S latest tilt at crypto promoters – that certainly blocked some earning!
Litigation
cryptocurrency
Dispute resolution
financial services
corporate law
crypto-assets
crypto
Block Earner
managed investment scheme
Class action settlement approval: fair & reasonable by any other name
Dispute resolution
class action settlement
class actions
class members
litigation law
Luke v Aveo Group Limited
The vexed question of privilege – Optus loses bid to keep Deloitte report under wraps
legal professional privilege
cyber security
cyber attack
Deloitte
Optus
Optus data breach
New Aim: Full Court provides clarity on expert evidence
insolvency law
Corporations Act 2001
Expert Evidence Practice Note
Harmonised Expert Witness Code of Conduct
New Aim v Leung
Collective bargaining – change is on the way
ACCC
Australian Consumer Law
Collective bargaining
What to do if served with a subpoena
Litigation
Commercial disputes
Dispute resolution
Subpoena
Liquidators’ unfair preference claims – the basics
Dispute resolution
liquidation
unfair preference claim
JOY Law – litigation mitigation
Litigation
JOY Law
Commercial disputes
Dispute resolution
Mediation
High Court refuses special leave to appeal, “ultimate consumer” test confirmed (for now)
retail leases
Retail Leases Act 2003 (Vic)
ultimate consumer
