Mark Brennan appointed as inaugural Federal Small Business Commissioner
Author : Samuel Hopper SC - 17-10-2012
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Samuel Hopper SC
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Hong Kong case on frustration of a residential lease during SARS closure
Samuel Hopper SC
Date : 25-03-2020
Options for landlords and tenants in the Covid-19 world? Part 2 & 3
Samuel Hopper SC
Date : 25-03-2020
New Ministerial determination exempting farm leases from the RLA 2003
Samuel Hopper SC
Date : 25-03-2020
Retail leasing post-C.B. Cold Storage Part 1: Koga Nominees Pty Ltd v Loscam Australia Pty Ltd & Ors [2018] VSC 455
Samuel Hopper SC
Date : 25-03-2020
New “ipso facts” provisions in the Corporations Act and their application to landlords and tenants
Samuel Hopper SC
Date : 25-03-2020
Standard of repair under s 52 of the RLA 2003 and repudiation by a landlord
Samuel Hopper SC
Date : 25-03-2020
Hopeless proceeding can result in a cost order under Retail Leases Act 2003 (Vic)
Samuel Hopper SC
Date : 25-03-2020
Retail tenant wins VCAT fight but gets nil damages and an adverse costs order
Samuel Hopper SC
Date : 25-03-2020
Epping Hotel Pty Ltd v Serene Hotels Pty Ltd decision – the profits method and consideration of supplementary report approved
Samuel Hopper SC
Date : 25-03-2020
Continuing problems with specialist retail valuers’ ‘no liability’ clauses
Samuel Hopper SC
Date : 25-03-2020
Small Business Commissioner’s application for advice heard, Justice Garde has reserved
Samuel Hopper SC
Date : 25-03-2020
Is a student accommodation business a retail premises lease under the Retail Leases Act 2003 (Vic)?
Samuel Hopper SC
Date : 25-03-2020
Part 2 – Standard of repair under s 52 of the Retail Leases Act 2003 (Vic)
Samuel Hopper SC
Date : 25-03-2020
Landlords’ ability to sue retail tenants’ guarantors at VCAT to be clarified
Samuel Hopper SC
Date : 25-03-2020
Small Business Commissioner makes application for advisory opinion on the effect of s 251 of the Building Act
Samuel Hopper SC
Date : 25-03-2020
When is a lease for business-to-business services governed by the Retail Leases Act 2003 (Vic)?
Samuel Hopper SC
Date : 25-03-2020
A significant VCAT decision for rental determinations under the RLA
Samuel Hopper SC
Date : 25-03-2020
Do tenants still need mortgagee’s consent to lease in light of the Willmott decision?
Samuel Hopper SC
Date : 25-03-2020
Willmott appeal dismissed – landlord’s Liquidators may disclaim leases
Samuel Hopper SC
Date : 25-03-2020
Is a stated intention to exercise an option sufficient to create a new agreement to lease? Part 2
Samuel Hopper SC
Date : 25-03-2020
Disclaimer of a lease by a landlord’s liquidator – Growers granted special leave to appeal
Samuel Hopper SC
Date : 25-03-2020
Issuing in VCAT without mediating at the Small Business Commissioner – proceedings ‘in the nature of an injunction’
Samuel Hopper SC
Date : 25-03-2020
Notice of Minister’s decision about the Retail Leases Regulations 2013 (Vic)
Samuel Hopper SC
Date : 25-03-2020
Landlords’ right to call on a bank guarantee before a dispute is determined
Samuel Hopper SC
Date : 25-03-2020
Is a stated intention to exercise an option sufficient to create a new agreement to lease?
Samuel Hopper SC
Date : 25-03-2020
Submissions on the proposed Retail Leases Regulations 2013 and the Regulatory Impact Statement are invited
Samuel Hopper SC
Date : 25-03-2020
Updated statutory information brochure on Small Business Commissioner’s website
Samuel Hopper SC
Date : 25-03-2020
Whether to issue in VCAT or Court for arrears of rent under a retail premises lease?
Samuel Hopper SC
Date : 25-03-2020
When a landlord can resist the exercise of an option by a retail tenant
Samuel Hopper SC
Date : 25-03-2020
How does a court determine whether the negotiations for a lease have ceased and agreement has been reached?
Samuel Hopper SC
Date : 25-03-2020
Mark Brennan appointed as inaugural Federal Small Business Commissioner
Samuel Hopper SC
Date : 25-03-2020
More on the Willmott decision – disclaimer of a contract of sale of land?
Samuel Hopper SC
Date : 25-03-2020
New information sheets from the Office of the Small Business Commissioner – options and assignments
Samuel Hopper SC
Date : 25-03-2020
Recovery of the cost of essential safety measures and s 251 of the Building Act part II
Samuel Hopper SC
Date : 25-03-2020
Recovery of the cost of essential safety measures and s 251 of the Building Act
Samuel Hopper SC
Date : 25-03-2020
Disclaimer of a lease by the landlord’s liquidator does not extinguish the tenant’s property – part II
Samuel Hopper SC
Date : 25-03-2020
Article in thenewlawyer.com.au about uniform national Torrens System legislation
Samuel Hopper SC
Date : 25-03-2020
Deputy President MacNamara of VCAT appointed as a County Court Judge
Samuel Hopper SC
Date : 25-03-2020
Article in The Age on the impact of online trading on retail shopping centres
Samuel Hopper SC
Date : 25-03-2020
New Ministerial determination excludes New Zealand companies from the Retail Leases Act 2003 (Vic) – Part II
Samuel Hopper SC
Date : 25-03-2020
New Ministerial determination excludes New Zealand companies from the Retail Leases Act 2003 (Vic)
Samuel Hopper SC
Date : 25-03-2020
Relief from forfeiture III – Lontav Pty Ltd v Pineross Custodial Services Pty Ltd [2011] VSC 278 (Hargreaves J)
Samuel Hopper SC
Date : 25-03-2020
Summary judgment for possession easier under Civil Procedure Act 2010 (Vic) – Dattner v Wharton [2011] VSC 610
Samuel Hopper SC
Date : 25-03-2020
Relief against forfeiture II – Lorgenredlich Pty Ltd v Cappadona (Retail Tenancies) [2011] VCAT 1668
Samuel Hopper SC
Date : 25-03-2020
Relief against forfeiture – V & O Princi Pty Ltd v Prestige Holdings Group Pty Ltd & Anor [2010] VSC 627
Samuel Hopper SC
Date : 25-03-2020
Some comments on the new disclosure statement under the Retail Leases Act 2003 (Vic)
Samuel Hopper SC
Date : 25-03-2020
Multi-scheme leases. Primary RE Ltd v Great Southern Property Holdings Ltd & Ors [2011] VSC 242
Samuel Hopper SC
Date : 25-03-2020
Relief would not have been granted in any event – Primary RE Ltd v Great Southern Property Holdings Ltd & Ors [2011] VSC 242
Samuel Hopper SC
Date : 25-03-2020
Exercising an option out of time: Weemah Park Pty Ltd v Glenlaton Investments Pty Ltd [2011] QCA 150 (24 June 2011)
Samuel Hopper SC
Date : 25-03-2020
“Reasonable time” in a s 146 notice – Primary RE Ltd v Great Southern Property Holdings Ltd & Ors [2011] VSC 242
Samuel Hopper SC
Date : 25-03-2020
Termination of leases and relief from forfeiture – Lontav Pty Ltd v Pineross Custodial Services [2011] VSC 278
Samuel Hopper SC
Date : 25-03-2020
Is the breach capable of remedy? Primary RE Ltd v Great Southern Property Holdings Ltd & Ors [2011] VSC 242
Samuel Hopper SC
Date : 25-03-2020
Part 2 – Cross-referencing error in s 62 of the Retail Leases Act 2003 (Vic)
Samuel Hopper SC
Date : 25-03-2020
Timbercorp Almonds decision – BOSI Security Services Limited v Australia and New Zealand Banking Group Limited & Ors [2011] VSC 255
Samuel Hopper SC
Date : 25-03-2020
Proof of events of default and an overarching breach? Primary RE Ltd v Great Southern Property Holdings Ltd & Ors [2011] VSC 242
Samuel Hopper SC
Date : 25-03-2020
The compensation requirement in a s 146 notice. Primary RE Ltd v Great Southern Property Holdings Ltd & Ors [2011] VSC 242
Samuel Hopper SC
Date : 25-03-2020
Validity of s 146 notices? Primary RE Ltd v Great Southern Property Holdings Ltd
Samuel Hopper SC
Date : 25-03-2020
Primary RE Ltd v Great Southern Property Holdings Ltd & Ors – enforceability of maintenance obligations
Samuel Hopper SC
Date : 25-03-2020
Primary RE Ltd v Great Southern Property Holdings Ltd – are purported forestry rights in fact leases?
Samuel Hopper SC
Date : 25-03-2020
Business records provided to assignee – s 60(1)(d) of the Retail Leases Act 2003 (Vic)
Samuel Hopper SC
Date : 25-03-2020
Cross-referencing error in s 62 of the Retail Leases Act 2003 (Vic)
Samuel Hopper SC
Date : 25-03-2020
Can the costs of repair and maintenance be recovered as an outgoing?
Samuel Hopper SC
Date : 25-03-2020
The danger of WorkSafe notices when repair and maintenance is required
Samuel Hopper SC
Date : 25-03-2020
Section 146 notices, relief against forfeiture and ss 601FS and 601FT of the Corporations Act
Samuel Hopper SC
Date : 25-03-2020
The Limitation of Actions Act and contribution claims under the Wrongs Act at VCAT
Samuel Hopper SC
Date : 25-03-2020
Ongoing issues with VCAT’s jurisdiction and the length of VCAT’s lists
Samuel Hopper SC
Date : 25-03-2020
A lease is not retail unless it is ‘open to the public in the required sense’
Samuel Hopper SC
Date : 25-03-2020
Double win for the Tigers and a win for tenants in the Court of Appeal
Samuel Hopper SC
Date : 25-03-2020
Comments on and a summary of the new Regulations extending and amending the CTRS
Samuel Hopper SC
Date : 25-03-2020
Challenging rental determinations because the valuer did not provide ‘detailed reasons’
Samuel Hopper SC
Date : 25-03-2020
Practice Note - The High Court has refused special leave to appeal the CB Cold Storage case
Samuel Hopper SC
Date : 25-03-2020
Practice Note - Contents of notice of default under s 27 of the RLA 2003
Samuel Hopper SC
Date : 25-03-2020
Practice note - Another application of the “ultimate consumer” test
Samuel Hopper SC
Date : 25-03-2020
Practice Note - Ministerial Determination overseas listed companies and their subsidiaries Part 2
Samuel Hopper SC
Date : 25-03-2020
Practice note - When is a lease for business-to-business services governed by the Retail Leases Act 2003 (Vic)? Part 3
Samuel Hopper SC
Date : 25-03-2020
Practice note - When is a lease for business-to-business services governed by the Retail Leases Act 2003 (Vic)? Part 2
Samuel Hopper SC
Date : 25-03-2020
Ministerial Determination overseas listed companies and their subsidiaries
Samuel Hopper SC
Date : 25-03-2020
Samuel Hopper SC
Date : 25-03-2020
A new practice for listing trials in the Building and Property List at VCAT
Samuel Hopper SC
Date : 25-03-2020
Should a tenant seeking an injunction to restrain re-entry be required to pay disputed arrears into a trust account?
Samuel Hopper SC
Date : 25-03-2020
Another interesting case about s 35 of the Retail Leases Act 2003 (Vic)
Samuel Hopper SC
Date : 25-03-2020
A default notice is not void if it fails to allow for abatement of rent – but what is a tenant to do if the abatement is disputed?
Samuel Hopper SC
Date : 25-03-2020
An interesting VCAT decision about the operation of s 28 of the Retail Leases Act 2003
Samuel Hopper SC
Date : 25-03-2020
Repaint and re-carpet clause is not a keep in repair clause and therefore, not contrary to s 52 of the RLA 2003 … or is it?
Samuel Hopper SC
Date : 25-03-2020
The Supreme Court has held that caps ARE permissible in retail premises leases
Samuel Hopper SC
Date : 25-03-2020
Setting off a damages claim when the lease contains a ‘no deductions’ clause
Samuel Hopper SC
Date : 25-03-2020
Landmark decision about exit fees and rent charged to dead residents in over-55s land lease communities
Samuel Hopper SC
Date : 25-03-2020
Application of the Retail Leases Act 2003 (Vic) to leases of 15 years or more: LFRACM INC v Halski Pty Ltd [2025] VCC 1506
Samuel Hopper SC
Date : 25-03-2020
What happens if a tenant renews a retail premises lease when the Act no longer applies?
Samuel Hopper SC
Date : 25-03-2020
Can restricting the permitted use prevent the Retail Leases Act 2003 (Vic) from applying? Two recent decisions and an upcoming CPD
Samuel Hopper SC
Date : 25-03-2020