What is a Planning Permit?
An Overview on Planning Permits in Victoria’s Planning System Statutory planning may also be referred as development control (Eccles & Bryant, 2011, p. 1). They represent a framework for the ...
What are Zones and Overlays in Victoria?
An Overview on Planning Zones and Overlays in Victoria Planning law reflects the complex and competing contests between experts and non-experts, the “balancing of individual rights against demands of public ...
What are Liquidated Damages and Penalties in Australia?
An Overview on Liquidated Damages and Penalties in Australian Contract Law: When examining an agreed damages clause, the task for the Court is to determine whether an agreed damages clause...
What are Damages in Australian Contract Law?
An Overview on Damages in Australian Contract Law: When a party breaches a contract, the other party to the contract may be entitled to damages as a remedy. In contract law, an award of damages is intended...
What is Remoteness in Australian Contract Law?
An Overview on Remoteness in Australian Contract Law: In Australian contract law, loss caused by a breach is a “necessary, but not a sufficient, prerequisite to the recovery for damages”..
What is Causation in Australian Contract Law?
An Overview on Causation in Australian Contract Law: Law may be viewed as a “fact-orientated system” of rules that regulate human and social behaviour (Weber, 2009, p. 118). The application of causation...
What is Contract Law?
An Overview on the Theories of Contract Law: Common law textbooks on contract law typically define “contracts in terms of promise or agreement or of a combination of the two” (Cootes, 2010, p. 10). Within contemporary contract literature...
Can changes be made to a domestic building contract?
An Overview on Changes Made to Domestic Building Contracts: Changes to domestic building contracts may be made if statutory requirements prescribed in the Domestic Building Contracts Act 1995 (Vic) are met...
What is the Classification of Terms in a Contract?
An Overview on Classification of Terms: In Australia, the English decision in Hongkong Fir Shipping Co Ltd v Kawasaki Kisen Kaisha Ltd [1962] 2 QB 26 was adopted representing a policy position shifting from a dualistic classification system...
What is Privity of Contract in Australia?
An Overview on Privity of Contract in Australian Contract Law In Australia: In Australia, privity of contract relates to the idea that only parties to a contract should be “bound by its obligation”, and benefit from the contractual relations...
