Sagar Pty Ltd & another v HPT 4 Services Pty Ltd & others [2024] QDC 227
18-12-24 / Matthew Jones KC — Contract, Commercial Equity
Matthew Jones KC represented the Defendants, instructed by Cowen Schwarz Marschke Lawyers. Former joint venture partners alleged that their co-venturer, an industrial real estate agent, had caused numerous “secret commissions” to be paid to his associated entities without permission. Matthew Jones KC acted for the agent and his related defendant…
A plaintiff aged pensioner claimed she had been induced to loan AUD 100,000 for a term of three years to a representative of a property marketing agency for investment purposes. That sum represented a substantial part of the plaintiff’s life savings. The money was not repaid and no asset of…
Rolleston Coal Holdings Pty Ltd v ICRA Rolleston Pty Ltd [2020] QSC 352
26-11-20 / Shane Doyle KC, Matthew Jones KC, Mohammud Jaamae Hafeez-Baig — Contract
A junior joint venture party to a coal mining joint venture sought declarations that certain cash call notices, issued by the senior joint venture party to fund the operation of the mine, were invalid and were therefore not required to be paid. An application for urgent final declaratory relief was…
Rolleston Coal Holdings Pty Ltd v ICRA Rolleston Pty Ltd [2020] QSC 331
4-11-20 / Matthew Jones KC, Mohammud Jaamae Hafeez-Baig — Contract
A junior joint venture party sought to restrain the senior joint venture party from exercising certain of its rights as manager of the operations of a Queensland coal mine, in particular the right to take steps in consequence of the junior joint venturer’s non-payment of regular cash call notices to…
This application for summary judgment considered the extent to which proof of a conviction for fraud pursuant to section 408C of the Criminal Code may be relied upon as evidence of the defendant’s state of mind in relation to a civil action concerning the same transaction. It also considered the…
