Plain tobacco packaging and investment proceedings on the issue has been described as an affront to the rule of law in Australia. Dr Patricia Ranald, Convener of the Australian Fair Trade and Investment Network said that big tobacco and other global corporations are lobbying hard to include the right of foreign investors to sue governments in the current negotiations for a Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPPA). Philip Morris International lost its case in December 2015. In November 2011, British American Tobacco announced that it would challenge the laws in the High Court as soon as they gained royal assent. In August 2012, the High
Homeguard Products (New Zealand) Ltd v Kiwi Packaging Ltd Homeguard Products (New Zealand) Ltd v Kiwi Packaging Ltd Homeguard Products (New Zealand) Ltd v Kiwi Packaging Ltd [1981] 2 NZLR 322 is often cited regarding the banking of cheques tendered as full settlement of disputed accounts. Kiwi Packaging supplied Homeguard with packaging materials. For unexplained reasons, a dispute arose between the parties just what the final balance owing was. This was not helped by Kiwi packaging giving different amounts as the final balance, ranging from $901.84 to $1,187.60. Homeguard thought the balance was even less than these amounts, with their calculation being for $765.97, and as a consequence, sent