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Monthly Archives: August 2020

Over 155,000 cars with deadly Takata airbags still on the roads says ACCC

According to ACCC’s Product Safety Australia (31 July 2020 https://www.productsafety.gov.au/news/over-155000-cars-with-deadly-takata-airbags-still-on-the-roads) at least 155,000 vehicles containing potentially deadly Takata airbags are still on our roads and with less than six months before manufacturers are expected to complete their recall of these vehicles, the ACCC is urging consumers to check if their vehicles are affected and if […]

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Principles surrounding the construction of commercial contracts

The principles surrounding the construction of commercial contracts are well established. In Electricity Generation Corporation v Woodside Energy Ltd (2014) 251 CLR 640; [2014] HCA 7 at [35] the plurality (French CJ, Hayne, Crennan and Kiefel JJ) stated, “The meaning of the terms of a commercial contract is to be determined by what a reasonable businessperson would have understood […]

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