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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...