Matthew Lo

3 weeks ago | lsj.com.au | Matthew Lo |Sophie Barbour - |Sophie Barbour

A A A By and - Jun 06, 2025 8:25 am AEST Snapshot The Full Court of the Federal Court has unanimously overturned the primary judgment that found Block Earner operated an unregistered managed investment scheme and lacked an Australian Financial Services Licence. The Full Court addressed the original judge’s decision to relieve Block Earner of penalties due to their reliance on legal advice from a ‘leading’ law firm, despite no direct evidence of the advice being presented. ASIC has sought...

1 month ago | lsj.com.au | Matthew Lo |Sophie Barbour - |Sophie Barbour

The anticipation was that NCAT would exclusively decide on those matters which comprise “all functions of government”[1] and have a “reduced emphasis on legal technicality, offering litigants the opportunity to present their own cases, without disadvantage and without the need to retain legal practitioners to act on their behalf.”[2] The recent decision of SP 95221 v Lane Cove Council [2025] NSWSC 172 (“this Decision”), handed down by Slattery J, identified that by being flexible and informal...

1 month ago | law360.com | Matthew Lo

By Matthew Lo ( May 9, 2025, 12:50 PM EDT) -- The recent Court of Appeal decision in Gutmann v. Apple Inc. has brought much-needed clarity for funders of collective actions in the Competition Appeal Tribunal.... Law360 is on it, so you are, too. A Law360 subscription puts you at the center of fast-moving legal issues, trends and developments so you can act with speed and confidence.

2 months ago | lsj.com.au | Matthew Lo |Sora Beebar - |Sora Beebar

A A A By and - Apr 11, 2025 8:45 am AEST Snapshot In Birketu Pty Ltd v Atanaskovic, the High Court found successful law firms can recover costs for litigation performed by their employed solicitors on their behalf. The judgment ends the divergence between New South Wales and Victorian case law since the Chorley exception was overturned in 2019. This article unpacks the judgment and discusses the underlying legal principles and questions; has the Chorley exception been resurrected and what...

Nov 26, 2024 | lsj.com.au | Matthew Lo |Jess Zhang |Jess Zhang -

Although the Appellant was self-represented, there are valuable takeaways for lawyers when making NCAT applications (for reasons which will become obvious, this decision is hereafter referred to as “the Second Appeal”). The Appellant had initially tried to bring proceedings under section 106 of the Strata Schemes Management Act 2015 (NSW) (“the SSMA”), which concerns the duty of an owners corporation to maintain and repair common property.