When Brand Power Meets Copyright Limits
A fast-moving copyright dispute shows how urgent IP conflicts can trigger duplicated legal work. The Court’s reasoning on parody, satire, and criticism highlights the need for early clarity—and cost structures that prevent clients from paying for both settlement and trial paths at once.
When Two Marks Look Similar - Power, Perception, and the Court’s Objective Eye
The 1937 Australian Woollen Mills decision shows how easily perceptions of similarity can drive escalation. The Court required real evidence of likely deception — a reminder that objective assessment matters more than suspicion. Clean Law’s two-lawyer structure keeps those assessments separate from advocacy, reducing misreads and cost spiral.
When Rules Look Like Technology: Aristocrat and the Risk of Paying for Schemes
Aristocrat highlights how schemes can look technical while changing nothing. Escrow oversight ensures clients never fund that dynamic.
When More Features Don’t Mean More Value: Aristocrat and the Real Cost of Complexity
Why the Aristocrat decision remains a reminder that greater complexity does not always mean greater value — and how cost-alignment safeguards respond.
When Form Hides Substance: What Aristocrat Teaches About Power, Process and Fairness
How Aristocrat shows the danger of relying on appearances — and why structural independence is becoming a core safeguard for modern clients.
When Product Claims Blur the Line: What the Botox® Case Shows About Power, Perception, and Proof
The High Court held that “instant Botox® alternative” was not used as a trade mark and conveyed no long-term efficacy claim. This case shows how assumptions about brand strength and reputation can drive unnecessary escalation. Clean Law’s one-path funding model is built to prevent those escalations before they become costly.
When “Not Warning” Isn’t Misleading: The High Court on Contingent Risks and Commercial Silence
The High Court in Lundbeck held Sandoz had no duty to warn of a contingent patent risk. Clean Law’s independence safeguards help clients avoid blind spots created by conflicted advice.
When Rights Don’t Exist Until They Suddenly Do: The Hidden Timing Trap in Patent Extensions
The Lundbeck decision highlights a hidden risk: rights that seem obvious commercially may not exist legally until much later. Escrow and independent oversight prevent costly timing errors in litigation.
Who Has the Right to Sue? The High Court’s Warning on Standing and Role Confusion
The High Court’s Lundbeck ruling shows how unclear roles can erase expected litigation rights. Structural independence — not goodwill — prevents similar standing risks.
When Settlement Language Breaks: How an Ambiguous Clause Drove Years of Litigation
The High Court’s Lundbeck decision shows how a single ambiguous settlement clause can drive years of litigation. Structural cost alignment — not drafting habits alone — prevents these risks.
When Ownership Meets Power: What Calidad v Seiko Epson Reveals About Hidden Limits on Your Rights
A short, clear breakdown of Australasian Memory Pty Ltd v Brien: how a timing error in a creditors’ meeting led the High Court to clarify the breadth of s 447A and why independent oversight protects businesses from similar procedural risks.
When Timetables Break: Power, Procedure and Fairness in Australasian Memory Pty Ltd v Brien
A short, clear breakdown of Australasian Memory Pty Ltd v Brien: how a timing error in a creditors’ meeting led the High Court to clarify the breadth of s 447A and why independent oversight protects businesses from similar procedural risks.
When One Missed Deadline Decides Everything
A High Court case showing that missing the 21-day statutory demand deadline removes the court’s jurisdiction entirely — and how Clean Law’s cost-alignment structure reduces the systemic delay risks that lead to this outcome.
When Tax Debts Become Insolvency Ammunition: Lessons from Broadbeach on Process, Power and Cost Risk
The Broadbeach decision shows how tax assessments can support statutory demands even while review is pending. This article explains the ruling and how one-path funding is built to stop clients paying for multiple litigation paths at once.
When Insolvency Turns on “Indulgence” - and Why Cost-Safety Still Matters
A landmark insolvent trading case showing how delay and unclear internal roles deepened financial exposure. Explains how Clean Law’s one-path cost-alignment model prevents similar risks.
When Directors Miss the Warning Signs: Insolvency, Oversight, and the Cost of Delay
A landmark insolvent trading case showing how delay and unclear internal roles deepened financial exposure. Explains how Clean Law’s one-path cost-alignment model prevents similar risks.
When Pressure Stops Being “Just Business”: Lessons from the Equiticorp Case
A complex tax-avoidance scheme triggered massive liabilities after directors failed to question conflicted decisions. Independent role separation helps prevent similar governance failures.
When Tax Schemes Become Directors’ Duties Risks: Lessons from BCI Finances Pty Ltd (in liq) v Binetter (No 4) [2016] FCA 1351
A complex tax-avoidance scheme triggered massive liabilities after directors failed to question conflicted decisions. Independent role separation helps prevent similar governance failures.
When Payments Hide Risk - power shifts fast when insolvency sits beneath the surface
A landmark insolvency case shows how ordinary payments become risky when timing and suspicion collide. Modern litigation carries similar exposure when clients pay for both settlement and trial. Clean Law’s one-path funding model is built to prevent that structural trap.
When Precaution Becomes Pressure: Lessons from Stanley v Phillips (1966) 115 CLR 470
The High Court warned against preparation that exceeds what a case reasonably requires. Stanley v Phillips shows how mixed-path work creates unnecessary cost—something Clean Law’s One-Path Funding is built to prevent.