This week, allegations of sexual harassment, by a former High Court judge, during the time he was a judge of that Court, shook the legal world – perhaps more seriously than the ‘Lawyer-X’ scandal. They were both illegal, but these harassment allegations, are at the absolute peak of the legal profession, and the alleged conduct…
The High Court granted the Commissioner special leave to appeal to the High Court against the decision of the Full Federal Court in CofT v Travelex Limited [2020] FCAFC 10, which related to the amount of interest the Commissioner had to pay, from a successful GST test case, which went all the way to the…
On 25 June 2020, the case of AJ & PA McBride Ltd v CofT was reported, where the AAT decided that the purchaser of a sheep station was not allowed an immediate deduction, under Subdiv 40-F of the ITAA 1997 (relating to ‘Primary production depreciating assets’), for the cost of the fences that were already on…