11-12-20 / Matthew Jones KC — Contract
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…
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…
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…
19-5-20 / Matthew Jones KC — Contract
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…
7-12-18 / Matthew Jones KC — Contract
Enforcement of an equitable assignment of future property. Matthew Jones appeared for the applicant. The judgment is available here.
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