2. Commercial
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​B. Contract

i.  Legislation

South Australia:
COVID-19 Emergency Response Act 2020 (SA):
See also the Transactions section.

ii.  Case law

COVID-19 may be relevant to the construction of particular terms in contracts.

​For example, the NSW Supreme Court considered COVID-19 in determining whether an application for judicial advice under s 62 of the Trustee Act 1925 (NSW) met the description of “urgent interlocutory relief” for the purposes of a dispute resolution clause in a unitholders agreement.  The Court found that the urgency for businesses created by the COVID-19 pandemic made the application “urgent” in the requisite sense: WLD Practice Holdings Pty Ltd, in respect of the WLD Practice Holdings Trust v Sara Stockham and Anor [2020] NSWSC 395, [73].

iii.  Further resources