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- Category: Debt Collection
- Unpaid School Fees – How To Avoid And Handle Debt Collection In Relation To Tuition
- When will courts pull the plug? Understanding the termination of a Deed of Company Arrangement under section 445D(1)(g) of the Corporations Act 2001 (Cth)
- DEBT COLLECTOR OR DEBT COLLECTION LAWYER? WHICH IS BEST FOR DEBT COLLECTION?
- How can property, of a bankrupt, not be “property of the bankrupt”?
- Creditors Statutory Demands
- Collecting Money: which court should I pick?
- Why do It Alone? Engage a Debt Collection Lawyer
- Effective options to recover debts in NSW
- Debt Recovery for Small to Medium Businesses
- Security for Costs Order
- Dotting the I’s, and crossing the T’s – the perils of creditors statutory demands
- Challenging Demands
- WHY JUST DO DEBT COLLECTION WHEN YOU CAN HAVE A DEBT COLLECTION LAWYER!
- WINDING UP DEBT COLLECTION!
- The Economic Storm – and How To Weather It
- My Bankruptcy (That Never Was)
- Fighting the Wolf at the Door
- HOW MUCH DID THAT COST?
- Creditor Bankruptcy Notices: What do I do if I receive one?
- CAN’T WE STILL BE FRIENDS? CUSTOMER RELATIONSHIPS AND DEBT COLLECTION
- OFFER UP!
- Debt Recovery of Judgments – Debt Collection and the Judgment Debtor
- Till Debt Do Us Part: Family Law and Corporate Insolvency
- Get out of (Liability) Gaol Free under section 447A
- Do you want to continue litigation against a party declared bankrupt? The Federal Court of Australia provides insight in Yan v Spyrakis as trustee in bankruptcy for Liu [2022] FCA 872
- Replacing a Trustee of a Bankrupt Estate
- Judgment Debts – The Consequences for a Judgment Debtor
- Debt Recovery – Obtaining Admission from Debtors
- Filing Fee Rise!
- A PERMANENT INCREASE OF THE BANKRUPTCY THRESHOLD
- COLLECTING MONEY!
- Collecting Money: Which court should I pick?
- KNOWING YOUR LIMITATIONS
- A DEBT COLLECTION AGENCY VERSUS A DEBT COLLECTION LAWYER
- Debt Restructuring Part 3 – Restructuring plans
- Debt Restructuring Part 2 – affects on a company under restructuring
- Debt Restructuring Part 1 – Introduction, Eligibility & the Restructuring Practitioner
- SME Debt Restructuring Legislation Passed
- To Extend, or Not to Extend: That is the Question
- Debt Restructuring legislation proposed for SMEs
- It’s not your money: director refused access to company’s frozen funds
- The handcuffs are on debt recovery, but for how long? What you can do in the meantime…
- Model Behaviour: the Australian version of America’s Chapter 11 Bankruptcy Scheme – Trustees & Creditors
- Debt Collection – Who Signed the Document?
- Debt Collection – Liquidated or Unliquidated Debt?
- Collecting Money? Avoid Going It Alone!
- Debt Collection Sydney – Statutory Demands and the Expiration of the Coronavirus Economic Response Package Omnibus Act 2020 amendments
- Clearing your debtor ledger – Get in touch with your not too friendly Debt Collection Lawyer!
- Responding to Debt Collectors
- OPPOSING PREFERENCE PAYMENT CLAIMS AFTER COLLECTING MONEY
- When is it too late to collect a debt?
- Government restrains creditor enforcement action in wake of COVID-19
- Debt Recovery – Why should I use a Lawyer?
- Creditor’s Requests – When is it unreasonable?
- Company Records? I could tell you, but I would have to go to gaol… ?
- Creditor’s statutory demand issued pending negotiations is upheld
- Not opening your emails? That is not an excuse to avoid valid service!
- Preventing a Service Fail – A Tale of Email v. Snail Mail?
- How to Enforce a Judgment in Debt Recovery – Garnishee Orders
- No Special Treatment for Lawyers – Debt Recovery for ‘Fools’
- One year bankruptcy – debt collection is about to get even harder!
- The Clock is Ticking….
- Paper, who needs paper?
- Can you serve legal documents by Facebook?
- Serving debtors who don’t want to be found
- Debt Recovery from a Company that has ‘Ceased to Be’…
- Proposed Changes to Credit Reporting Before Senate: Will it impact debt recovery?
- How to serve a statutory demand
- When is an old debt too old to collect?
- Credit Repair Schemes – A Magic Wand?
- Garnishee Orders – 5 things to know.
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- NSW stamp duty for new homes under $800K eliminated temporarily
- COVID-19 Update on Witnessing Queensland Land Titles Documents
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- What every employer MUST know for 1 July 2019
- Director Duties and Liabilities
- Immediate review of discretionary trust deeds required in light of NSW duty and land tax changes
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- Unfair Contract Terms under the Australian Consumer Law and ASIC Act
- Reverse Mortgages – An Alternative to Downsizing?
- Unregulated business loans – Considerations for lenders
- Protecting Assets and Preserving Wealth through Discretionary Trusts
- The Importance of Due Diligence in the Acquisition of a Business
- What is the best business structure for you?
- PREVENTING DATA BREACHES AND ESTABLISHING RESPONSE PLANS | PRIVACY LAWS
- New Changes and Penalties to Unfair Contract Terms under the Australian Consumer Law
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- Display or Pay! Franchisors must register by 14 November 2022
- Mandatory Code of Conduct for Commercial Leasing
- COVID-19 Contracts and Frustration
- Frustrated Leases
- NSW: Land Tax Relief and new COVID-19 Leasing Regulations
- GREATER SYDNEY’S 2021 LOCKDOWN: WILL BUSINESSES SINK OR SWIM?
- Terms of Trade – New Disclosure Obligations for NSW Businesses
- Terms of Trade – Beware of Unlawful Unfair Contract Terms
- Businesses – Greater Exposure to Liability
- Leasing – NSW COVID-19 Protections Extended
- Directors – Director ID Numbers are Coming
- Don’t Go Chasing Waterfalls – COVID-19 Safe Harbour is (still) not Safe
- Danger – COVID-19 Safe Harbour STILL Requires Early External Administrator Appointment
- Danger – COVID-19 Safe Harbour Flaw Requires URGENT External Administrator Appointment
- New! Key Changes to the Covid Leasing Rules for Landlords and Tenants
- Impacts for Commercial Leases & Commercial Contracts
- COVID-19 – What do Force Majeure and Frustration mean for contracts?
- Code of Conduct for Commercial Tenancies – Released
- Critical Covid Response Items for EVERY Business and Employer
- ALERT: COVID-19 Impact on Working Holiday Visa Holders
- COVID-19: Critical Matters for Commercial & Retail Tenants and Landlords
- Social Media – Be On High Alert As To The Risks!
- Excessive Surcharge Laws – Beware!
- Automatic Rollover Clauses – What Are Your Rights?
- Australian Consumer Law – Record breaking fines
- Corporations Act – Tougher maximum penalties & the ‘why not litigate’ mantra of ASIC
- Reminder – The Whistleblower Policy Deadline is 1 Jan 2020
- Beware of Personal Guarantees
- New Australian Consumer Law Warranty Requirements
- Workplace Update: New Whistleblower Laws
- Fines and Prison – Tougher Personal & Company Penalties
- Franchising – Is It For Me?
- New Laws to Punish ‘Shady’ Employers
- New laws to limit non-disclosure agreements in consumer disputes
- Are your Contracts Properly Signed?
- Restrictions on Your Right to Terminate a Commercial Contract
- On the Horizon – Equal Pay for Female Employees
- Casual Employees Conversion to Permanent Employment
- Relaxation of Strict Procedural Requirements for Enterprise Agreement Approval
- Family and Domestic Violence Leave now part of the Fair Work Act
- Privacy Act Reminder – Mandatory Data Breach Notifications and Penalties
- Coming Soon – Director Identification Numbers … Directors Beware
- Personal Liability and Increased Penalties – Australian Consumer Law
- Personal and Company Penalties – Breaches of Competition and Consumer Laws
- Protections for Employers against ‘Double Dipping’
- Tougher Penalties under the Australian Consumer Law
- Directors: Beware of relying on the advice of others!
- Employer Wins Request for Legal Representation
- NEW! Consumer Guarantee Directions for 1 January 2019
- Personal Leave – Have You Calculated It Correctly?
- Warning! Casual Employee Entitled to Annual Leave
- It will soon be time to give your Personal Property Securities Registrations a “Spring Clean”
- Bullying and Harassment Claims High in Local Government
- Director Record Keeping Duties
- FWC Reduces Redundancy Payout to Zero
- Federal Government Announces Replacement Fair Work Ombudsman
- Australian Government launches examination into Workplace Sexual Harrassment
- What every employer MUST know for 1 July 2018
- Record Keeping for a SMSF
- Do you know what PPSR interests affect your business?
- Business Succession Planning
- Commercial Law – Tips for Small Business
- The Importance of Record Keeping
- Commercial Law – Taxing Times for foreign owners
- Commercial Law – Selling Your Business? Beware the Warranty
- Commercial Law – Selling your business? Consider the PPSR
- Implications – SMSF Record Keeping (or lack thereof)
- Record Keeping (or lack thereof) for SMSFs
- Finally the Personal Property Securities Register is making its mark
- Duty to Mitigate Damages for Purchaser’s Default
- The new Franchise Code of Conduct will come into effect 1 January 2015
- Calling upon a bank guarantee – not as simple as you think
- Having trouble understanding the PPSA?
- Review of the Personal Property Securities Act (PPSA)
- Do you have a SMSF?
- ASIC and misleading advertising
- Thinking about purchasing a franchise? Ask a commercial lawyer for advice
- Delegating authority
- Guidelines for banks when lending to SMSFs
- Proposed increases to penalties for offences under the Contaminated Land Management Act
- What Lender’s must tell you when borrowing through your SMSF
- Failing to register security interests on the PPSR
- Privacy Law Update: A $1.7 Million Obligation
- Seeking Damages for Unauthorised Use of a Trade Mark
- Is your Self Managed Superannuation Fund compliant?
- Recent Federal Court decision spells disaster for bankrupt and his non-compliant self managed superannuation fund
- Priority of Personal Property Securities Register
- Coup for Matthews Folbigg Lawyers – National Law Firm Partner Joins The Firm
- English High Court takes a Break in Kit Kat dispute
- Intellectual Property and the Personal Property Securities Register (PPSR)
- Does your business supply on credit?
- Terms of Trade – Does my business need them?
- ASIC issues infringement notices for false advertising
- Loaning money? Don’t rely on a handshake – you need a Loan Agreement
- High Court upholds finding of misleading advertising in back and forth stoush between TPG and ACCC
- Shareholder Disputes – Recent Case
- Why are written business agreements important?
- Getting what you’re worth: Quantum Meruit
- Deceptively similar trade marks – how close is too close?
- Segboer & Anor v A J Richardson Properties Pty Limited & Anor [2012] NSWCA 253
- Directors may be held personally liable for infringement of trade marks or copyright
- Director’s Duties and Corporate Governance
- obtain advice on your asset ownership options
- Liability for directors under new legislation
- NEW Swimming Pool Requirements: Staying Afloat
- What is a de facto director? Can they be held liable as a director?
- Planning for the future of your business – you should consider a buy sell agreement
- Due Dilligence
- Category: Cyber
- Category: Debt Recovery
- Rooster or Duck? Navigating the Feather-Ruffling Confusion of Employee vs. Independent Contractor
- When Will a Court Replace a Trustee of a Bankrupt Estate?
- How to Take Someone To Court Once they have been declared bankrupt
- Costs: Are they actually recoverable in the Local Court?
- Payment of a Judgment Debt by Instalments: Moving a Mountain starts by carrying away small Stones
- Letters of Demand: Why they are beneficial, and why they should never be ignored!
- PPS – What can it really do for you
- Attention Company Directors – DIN or discipline?
- Out of the Shadows…
- Debt Recovery by Garnishee Notice
- AICM releases an industry first report into consumer overdue credit trends and practices
- Reform to Unfair Contract Terms – What’s New?
- AICM Risk Report 2023
- Security for Costs: How to not get dragged down by the impecunious Plaintiff
- The Judgment: Is it the end of the Debt Recovery Process?
- Australian Institute of Credit Management – Risk Report 2023
- Fighting the Rearguard Action – s 459S and Winding Up Applications
- Dangers of Division 7A Loans In Liquidation
- Making Debt Collection Successful – The Key: Information!
- Creditor Bankruptcy Notices: How to serve them correctly as a creditor
- Understanding and Fixing your Credit Status
- The Ruby Princess – Nothing “Cruisy” About Cruise Line Contracts
- Interest on Costs: Interest-ing!
- Assigning Security Interests in Personal Property
- A Picture of the Risk and Insolvency Landscape in Australia
- Garnishee Orders: Debtors Beware!
- Identifying the Debtor!
- Does the PPSR matter anymore?
- Statutory Demands for Debt Recovery: Risky Business?
- Overdue payment – lawyer or Debt Collector?
- The Schools Blog: Part 3 – The Fail Safe for Fee Recovery
- The Schools Blog: Part 2 – Recovering fees whilst retaining relationships
- The Schools Blog: Part 1 – Starting terms the right way
- Creditor’s Statutory Demand Threshold: What It Is and How to Use It
- Recovering costs for debt collection services
- DEBT RECOVERY – HOW FAR CAN YOU GO?
- Money for Nothing? Or, Something Instead of Nothing.
- COVID-19: Will my hearing go ahead? – Part 3
- The “arid technicality” of Bankruptcy Notices?
- COVID-19 and Corporate Insolvency: What does an increase in corporate insolvency mean to creditors?
- WINDING UP BECAUSE ITS JUST AND EQUITABLE
- BANKRUPT MAN CONVICTED OF CRIMINAL OFFENCES
- Is there such a thing as an acceptable level of debt?
- Recovering debt from a company – Statutory Demand v Proceedings
- DEBTOR’S PETITION OVERHAUL – JANUARY 2020
- Securing Property Interests on the PPSR is now mainstream
- Can I transfer the business of my insolvent Company without conducting “illegal phoenix activity”?
- When does an employee of a company become an “officer”?
- In a Daze about Days – counting the time limit for filing an Application to set aside a Creditor’s Statutory Demand
- Three reasons why your debt collection efforts should not end when your debtor goes bankrupt
- Is Payment of the Debt Guaranteed? The Answer Is Not Always Straightforward…
- Double Whammy! When cost orders become a further debt
- I only have the business name of the debtor, can I still sue them?
- Collecting debts is a legislative minefield
- When its better to get something than nothing, the use of Payment Arrangements in recovering your debt.
- Calderbank Offers – What You Need to Know
- “Agreement in principle” – is it binding?
- DEBT COLLECTION BY THE MERE FACT …
- CREDITORS AND THE INSOLVENCY LAW REFORM ACT 2016
- Signing on the dotted line: making sure you bind your customer to a contract.
- Guaranteed Win?
- Collecting Money: Which Court?
- Recovering money from the right debtor
- When is a letter Delivered?
- DEBT RECOVERY – BANKRUPTCY ENFORCEMENT
- DEBT RECOVERY – ENFORCEMENT BY WINDING UP
- Serve by Post at your Peril!
- Garnishee Orders for Debt Recovery
- Opposing an Instalment Order – When is it Worth the Trouble?
- Get your Bankruptcies – 66% off!!
- Category: Employment & Workplace Solutions
- Changes to Casual Employment Arrangements
- WHS Obligations – Improvement and Prohibition Notices
- UPDATE – The New Duty to Act on Psychosocial Risks for NSW Employers
- NEW LAWS! Paid Family and Domestic Violence Leave
- NEW LAWS! – Recent Changes to Worker Entitlement Protections
- What every employer MUST know for 1 July 2022
- Best Practices for Dismissing or Disciplining Public Sector Employees
- Religious Exemptions to Covid-19 Vaccinations
- Changes to Casual Employment Requirements
- Updated Sexual Harassment Laws
- Mandatory Vaccination Policies in the Workplace
- Mandating Covid-19 Vaccinations in the Workplace
- The JobMaker Scheme
- The JobKeeper 2.0 Scheme
- Miscellaneous Award 2020 – Extended Application
- Proposed Amendments to the Fair Work Act
- Casuals – High Court to hear ‘Workpac’ Appeal
- What every employer MUST know for 1 July 2020
- Warning to all Directors – The First Industrial Manslaughter Conviction
- Casual Problems – Workpac v Rossato: Implications for Businesses
- New Laws to Stand Down Employees
- New Laws – Religious Discrimination Legislation on Track to be Introduced in 2020
- Court Cases – Personal Leave Calculation Decision Off to The High Court
- Whistleblower Policies – Must be in Place by 1 January 2020
- Annualised Salaries – Changes to Burden Employers
- Modern Awards – New Awards Commencing From 4 February 2020
- End-of-Year Work Functions – ‘The Nightmare before Christmas’
- New Laws – Criminal Records and Discrimination
- Social Media and the Workplace – A Recent High Court Decision
- Employment Agreements
- New – Proposed Changes to Single Touch Payroll including Jail Terms
- New – Fixed Term Contracts Expose Employers to Unfair Dismissal
- New – Variations to Casual/Part-Time Rules in Modern Awards
- Employer and Director Heavily Fined
- Draft Legislation – Increased Discrimination Protections for Pregnant Workers
- Unfair Dismissal – Are Employers on their Own?
- Employment Law – WARNING! Inappropriate Christmas Party Behaviour
- Employment Law – Bupa Criticised for Disciplinary Process
- Employment Law – Dismissal for Drug Test Refusal Invalid
- Employment Law – Employee Compensated After Award Obligations Ignored
- Employment Law – Poor Response to Parental Leave
- Employment Law – Court Dismisses Employee’s Misleading Conduct Claim
- Employment Law – No Compensation for Employee who fibbed on CV
- Employment Law – Couple Working From Home Employees
- Employment Law – Chauffeur Who Had Minimal Control a Worker
- Employment Law – Client Information Posted on Facebook Confidential
- Fair Work Commission – Settlement Prevents Dismissal Claim
- Employment Law – Contempt ruling for director who deleted documents
- Employment Law – Bullying Allegations Reasonable Management Action
- NEW! Fair Work Amendment (Protecting Vulnerable Workers) Act
- Fair Work Commission: Support Person in Disciplinary Meetings
- Huge Payout for Employment Contract Repudiation
- Employment Law – Payroll Manager Jailed for Fraud
- Employment Law – Adverse Action against Train Driver
- Fair Work Commission – Reconsideration of Fixed Term Contract Authority
- Dismissal for Leaving Accident Reasonable
- Fair Work Commission Allows Late Dismissal Claim
- Dismissed Woolworths Worker Denied Legal Representation
- FWC: Ruling on Out-of-Hours Work
- Penalty Increase for Breaches of Fair Work Act
- Religious Law Trumps Dismissal
- Foreign Worker Levy Law Change
- Termination of Employee on Sick Leave “Illogical”
- Fair Work Commission: Compensation Awarded for Underpaid Employee
- Redundancy Consultation Cannot be ‘Hollow’
- Personal Leave – Are Certificates from Pharmacists Acceptable?
- WARNING! Workplace Investigation – Getting it Wrong
- Employment Law – Dismissal for pornographic emails
- Employment Law – Ex-Employee Restraint Clause Unenforceable
- Employment Law – Modern Awards Reductions
- Employment Law – The Need for Proper Workplace Investigations
- Employment Law – Redundancy Consultation
- Employment Law – s 457 Visa Entitlements
- Employment Law – Incapacity Not a Refusal to Work
- Employment Law – FWC Slams Poor Agreement Drafting
- Employment Law – Landmark Sham Contracting Case
- Fair Work Commission: On-Hire Worker Unfairly Dismissed
- Employment Law: Compensation for Unfairly Sacked Truckie
- Fair Work Commission: High Earner Can Pursue an Unfair Dismissal Claim
- Employment Law – Ambiguous Enterprise Agreement Win
- Employment Law – Informal Approach Acceptable
- Fair Work Commission – Investigation Procedural Deficiencies
- Employment Law – Unenforceable Restraints
- Employment Law – Ex-Director Restrained by IP
- Fair Work Commission – Minimum Wage to Increase by 3.3%
- Employment Law – New Financial Year Changes
- Employment Law – Contractor Ordered to Return Files
- Fair Work Commission – Employee not Subcontractor
- Employment Law – Dismissal of Injured Worker Not Discriminatory
- Fair Work Commission – Social Media Posts
- Employment Law – Drug and Alcohol Testing
- Employment Law – Protecting Company Connections
- Employment Law – New Employer Liable in Confidential Information Case
- Employment Law – Recommendations for Employment Entitlements
- Fair Work Commission – Re-Determination of Safety Dismissal
- Employment Law – Workplace Investigation Documents
- Employment Law – Dismissal of employee for pornographic emails
- Employment Law – Out-of-Hours Misconduct Dismissal Too Harsh
- Employment Law – Payroll Company Liable for Client’s Award Breach
- Employment Law – Redundancy and Job Swaps
- Employment – Personal Liability for Directors and Managers
- Employment Law – Loss of Mutual Trust Causes Resignation
- Employment Law – Unfair Dismissal – ‘Crude’ Facebook Post
- Employment Law – Former Manager Ordered to Hand Over Electronic Files
- Fair Work Commission – Stop Bullying Order Rejected
- Fair Work Commission – Employer Restrained
- Employment Law – Procedural Fairness and Employee Dismissals
- Employment Law – Loss of Mutual Trust Causes Resignation
- Employment Contracts and Procedural Fairness
- Deed of Release prevented claim against Employer
- Federal Government abolishes the 457 visa
- Consultation – Essential for a ‘Genuine Redundancy’
- Swearing Did Not Warrant Summary Dismissal
- Q&A – Dismissal of employees whilst on leave
- Employment Law – Medical Certificates
- Fair Work Commission – Judgment on Email
- Workplace Law – Record-Keeping Warning
- Employment Law – Drug Testing
- Workplace Law – Redundancies Not Genuine
- Employment Law – Rates for Owner-Drivers
- Employment Law – Brothel to Pay Employee $170,000
- Adverse Action Claim Dismissed
- Restraint injunction granted against law firm partners
- FWO flags review of abandonment clauses in Awards
- Fair Work Commission – Penalty Rates Decision
- Misuse of Confidential Information – Evidence relied upon after the fact
- Bullying Appeal Win for Employee as Bench Overturns Commissioner Ruling Based On Jurisdiction
- Employer too slow to take action on employee misconduct
- Gender Segregation And its Impact on Women’s Equality: A Senate Inquiry
- Anti-Bullying Order Dismissed But Corrective Action For All
- Anti-Bullying Order Dismissed But Corrective Action For All
- Discrimination in the Workplace – Questionable Decision of the Fair Work Commission
- Discrimination in the Workplace – Questionable Decision of the Fair Work Commission
- Lose Your Anger or Lose Your Job
- Difference between a volunteer and an employee
- Fair Work Ombudsman sets accessorial liability precedent
- Employee or Volunteer?
- When should an employer be on notice that an employee may develop a psychiatric injury?
- Workload too Onerous?
- Secret recording of an employee – Can it be used by an employer?
- Unreasonable Restraint of Trade Clause in Employment Contract
- Can an employee take their HR file home because of a fear it will be altered?
- Is it fair to dismiss an employee for failing to return a personnel file?
- Decision on Penalty Rates Delayed Again
- Employer’s Investigations into sexual harassment found to be overly formalistic
- Can you dismiss an employee for their out of hours conduct?
- How much notice is required when terminating an employee?
- Returning to Work After Childbirth
- Fair Work Commission Finds in Favour of Pregnant Employee Unfairly Dismissed
- Employer Fined $87,500 after Breaching the Work Health and Safety Act
- Employee’s Dismissal for Bullying and Harassment Upheld by the Fair Work Commission
- Employers – consistency is key when disciplining employees
- Company Directors Personally Liable for Breaches of the Fair Work Act
- What every employer MUST know for 1 July 2016
- Wage Rise on 1 July 2016
- Employee Fined for Failing to Give Notice
- Bully Manager Banned from the Workplace – Where is Your Policy?
- Reminder: Fair Work Act Changes – What You Need to Know
- Dismissed for Attending the Tennis
- Warning Rescinded by Fair Work Commission
- Sexually Harassed Employee Wins $1.3 million in Damages
- Danger: Workplace Policy part of an Employment Contract
- Workplace Solutions Survey 2014 – Findings Revealed
- Your staff know what bullying is
- The need for sound decisions – Unfair dismissal and mental illness
- Long Term Casuals
- Warning for External Administrators
- Do your employees have access to unfair dismissal? High income threshold set to rise
- The risky business of ‘poaching’ employees
- The Coalition’s Proposed Workplace Policy
- Termination Payments to Executives
- Important: New Changes to the Fair Work Act
- Workplace Bullying
- To Tweet or not to Tweet?
- Employer Succeeds in Defending Sexual Harassment Claim
- HR Manager and Director Liable for Sham Contracting
- Adverse Action Claim against Qantas Upheld on Appeal
- Policies must be Properly Implemented and Consistently Enforced to Protect Employers
- Risk to Employers from Representations made in Employment Contract Negotiations
- New Work Health and Safety Laws
- Guidelines for employers on floods, fire, cyclones and other emergencies
- Validity and enforceability of cascading restraint of trade clauses against employees
- Be prepared for paid parental leave
- Employers warned to avoid adverse action
- Unfair dismissal under the Fair Work regime
- Category: Employment Law
- Category: Family Law
- New World in Family Law Parenting Proceedings
- The Bank of Mum & Dad
- How to Prepare for an Initial Consultation with a Family Lawyer
- HOW OTHER AREAS OF LAW MAY INTERACT WITH FAMILY LAW: A FAMILY LAW LAWYER REVIEWS A RECENT HIGH COURT DECISION
- FAMILY LAWYER PUTS LIGHT ON THE LIGHTHOUSE PROJECT
- FAMILY LAW LAWYER ON WHY YOU SHOULD FORMALISE ANY PROPERTY SEPARATION REACHED.
- SEPARATION LAWYER ON WAYS TO FORMALISE AN AGREEMENT REACHED
- Case Management Pathway for Family Law Evatt List matters
- Property Settlement – A Marriage Lawyer explains the steps and significance of the decision in Stanford v Stanford
- A revamp to the Family Law system? How a Child Custody Lawyer’s role may change because of proposed reform
- A SEPARATION LAWYER DISCUSSES ALTERNATIVE DISPUTE RESOLUTION IN FAMILY LAW PROCEEDINGS
- Family Law Lawyer discusses filing and listing of family law proceedings in circuit locations
- A FAMILY LAW LAWYER EXPLAINS THE IMPORTANCE OF GIVING INSTRUCTIONS
- Assessing the Appropriateness of Applying for a Binding Financial Agreement
- FAMILY LAW LAWYER EXPLAINS THE PRESUMPTION OF EQUAL SHARED PARENTAL RESPONSIBILITY AND WHERE EXCEPTIONS OPERATE
- ASKING A FAMILY LAW LAWYER IF YOU CAN BE JOINED TO PROCEEDINGS
- A DIVORCE LAWYER DISCUSSES THE IMPORTANCE OF INCLUDING AN APPROPRIATE PROVISION IN A FINANCIAL AGREEMENT
- A child custody Lawyer details interim parenting applications
- A child custody lawyer outlines the presumption and evidence of parentage
- A family law lawyer explains de facto relationships before the Court
- Sole use and exclusive occupation from the perspective of a separation lawyer
- A Marriage Lawyer outlines spousal maintenance
- Family Violence and its impact upon Family Law Proceedings
- FAMILY LAW LAWYER REVIEWS OVERSEAS TRAVEL ISSUES
- A DIVORCE LAWYER EXPLAINS SHUTTLE FAMILY LAW MEDIATION
- THE HYBRID COURT: SEPARATION LAWYER REVIEWS HOW FAMILY LAW CASES ARE MANAGED IN A POST-LOCKDOWN WORLD
- FAMILY LAW LAWYER EXPLORES NEW FAMILY LAW HIGH COURT DECISION – BREAK UP OF DE FACTO COUPLE
- Can a separation lawyer consider my contributions to stepchildren during a property settlement?
- New family law Critical Incident List
- The role of a divorce lawyer in raising a Kennon argument for contributions in property proceedings
- Asking a marriage lawyer if I can change my child’s surname
- Divorce lawyer advice after separation and the operation of the ‘clean break’ Principle
- A prenuptial agreement lawyer explains how to change a binding financial agreement
- Seeking a child custody lawyer to recover your child
- Asking a divorce lawyer about property settlement
- Advice from a separation lawyer in a child custody dispute
- Getting a Divorce – the application, the hearing and when you need a divorce lawyer
- How a child support lawyer can navigate through a child vaccination dispute
- Asking a family law lawyer about parentage testing
- A prenuptial agreement lawyer’s role in disputing a BFA
- How Child Support Lawyers Determine a Child’s Best Interest
- A marriage lawyer explains time limitation for proceedings
- Changing Parenting Orders And The Principle Of Rice & Asplund
- CHILD VACCINATION INTENTIONS DECIDE CUSTODY MATTER
- COMPLETE CONSIDERATION OF ISSUES IN CHILD CUSTODY MATTERS
- ISSUES OF IMPORTANCE IN CHILD CUSTODY MATTERS
- PANDEMIC IMPACTS CHILD CUSTODY DECISION
- Family Law – Changes to the Family Court
- Why you should try Family Law Mediation
- Issues of Risk and Supervised Time in Child Custody Disputes: The Re Andrews Principle
- How Do I Get Equal Child Custody of My Kids?
- Family Law: The Role of Accountants in the Family Court
- Divorce Lawyer Explains the Steps You Can Take if You are Unhappy with Your Final Orders
- Innovations in the Family Court – Responses to Emerging Challenges
- To Be or Not to Be – Our Family Law Lawyers Explain the Requirements of De Facto
- What You Need to Show the Court to Obtain a Divorce
- The Family Court Merger – Our Family Law Lawyers Outline What You Need to Know
- Prenuptial Agreements and the importance of complying with the Family Law Act
- 4 Important Questions You Should Ask Your Divorce Lawyer
- Spousal Maintenance – Divorce Lawyers Explain How Much Is Reasonable
- Can I get a divorce in Australia if we were married overseas?
- Innovations in the Family Court to help respond to domestic violence
- The significance of domestic violence within the Family Courts and the legal impact it has upon separation
- What is ‘child custody’ and its influence on Australian Family Law
- Section 60I Certificates: What is it and can it be bypassed?
- Can your Affair End in a Property Settlement? Family Law Lawyers Delve Into This
- Divorce Lawyer Explains section 114 Orders – Restraining Travel to Enforce Property Settlements
- Is COVID-19 a reasonable excuse to withhold a child from a parent? A Family Law Lawyers Answer
- The Move to an Online Family Court: How Covid-19 has Influenced the Way Divorce Lawyers Represent their Clients
- The Presumption of Equal Shared Parental Responsibility – What this means and how it affects your child – Child Custody Lawyer advice
- Family Law Lawyer advice on the effect of death on property proceedings
- The Consequences of Escaping Debt in Family Property Proceedings
- When Can You Commission Your Own Expert Report – Family Law Lawyers Know How
- Family Court Finds A Way to Get out of Binding Child Support Agreement during Covid-19
- When will the Court appoint a lawyer (an ICL) to represent the interests of your children?
- What are the other options to address delays in the Family and Federal Circuit Court?
- Introduction by the Court of the Discrete Property List
- Court introduces new initiatives to help alleviate the significant delays in the Court
- Changing Existing Parenting Orders
- Question of Paternity – How Child Support Lawyers Can Help
- Divorce Lawyer Explains Foreign Divorces
- Property Settlement Agreement – A Four Step Process
- How has Covid-19 affected Family Law Mediation?
- Family Inheritance: Can your Separation Lawyer Help?
- What Happens if I Breach My Parenting Orders?
- What is the Role of the Mediator in Family Law Mediation?
- Interim Hearings – What are They and Will I Need a Family Law Lawyers Assistance?
- DISPUTE RESOLUTION – Our Family Law Lawyer looks at the new digital service “amica”
- Is COVID-19 a reasonable excuse to withhold a child from a parent? A Family Law Lawyers Answer
- Family Law Mediation during COVID-19
- The Move to an Online Family Court: How Covid-19 has Influenced the Way Divorce Lawyers Represent their Clients
- What Does the Closing of the NSW-Victoria Border mean for my Family Law Matter?
- Worried About Facing Your Ex at Family Mediation? Shuttle mediation may be an Option For You
- Family Law Lawyers Discuss Your Options to Stop Your Former Partner From Taking Your Child Overseas
- Can your Affair End in a Property Settlement? Family Law Lawyers Delve Into This
- Divorce Lawyer Explains section 114 Orders – Restraining Travel to Enforce Property Settlements
- How Binding Financial Agreements can let you Decide the Terms of your Property Settlement Agreement
- FAQs – How Our Divorce Lawyers are Responding to Covid
- Recent Family Court Case Sheds Light on What Initial Contributions are Really Worth?
- Family Law Lawyers Explain Equal Shared Parental Responsibility
- Plain English Guide to Divorce
- Will Expected Inheritance Be Included in My Family Property Settlement Agreement?
- The Bank of Mum and Dad – Gifts from your Parents and Property Settlement Agreements
- Family Law Lawyers in Focus: Cassandra Bayliss
- The Basics of Getting a Divorce
- Family Lawyer in Focus: Kieran Ridley
- Valuing the Family Home in Family Law Matters
- What are Consent Orders and How Can They Help My Family?
- Family Dispute Resolution: How to Resolve Your Parenting Dispute Without Going to Court
- Parenting During a Pandemic – 5 Tips to Get Your Family Through Covid19
- My Ex Won’t Let Me Take My Kids Overseas
- Keeping Families Safe: How the Family Courts are Responding to Covid19
- Family Lawyer in Focus: Tina Lohitharajah
- The Basics of What Your Exs Company is Worth: The Balance Sheet
- Divorce Lawyer in Focus: Cathy-Anne Grew
- How Interim Child Custody Proceedings Can Help You
- Family Law Secretaries in Focus: Tina Skaros
- Property Pool under $500,000 – Resolving Your Family Property Dispute Quickly
- Divorce Lawyer in Focus: Carolyn Munk
- Child Support Lawyers– What are Your Options?
- Time Limits For Family Property Settlements
- False Allegations of Child Sexual Abuse – What Can Go Wrong in Child Custody
- Separation Lawyer Advice – Can your ex take your super?
- Divorce Lawyer Advice – I Want a Divorce – Married Less than Two Years
- ‘I Want a Divorce’ – Divorce Lawyer Advice
- Divorce Lawyer advice on dealing with different contributions in a property settlement agreement
- Divorce lawyer advice about property settlements
- Divorce Advice when Children are Involved
- Unhappy with your current Parenting Arrangement? How to Change your Family Court Orders
- The Basics of a Divorce
- Divorce Lawyer in Focus: Andrew Banna
- Not a Parent of the Child? What you need to do to Challenge Your Child Support Assessment
- Can You DIY Your Prenup?
- Superannuation in family law matters
- Child Custody Laws and Independent Children’s Lawyers
- What Do Child Custody Laws Say If Your Child Doesn’t Want To See the Other Parent?
- Divorce Lawyer Advice for when you can’t locate your ex-partner to serve divorce papers
- Why a divorce lawyer considers arrangements for children when completing your divorce application
- Separation Lawyer on Gaining Sole Use and Occupancy of the Family Holiday Home
- How a Divorce Lawyer can assist when you have been married for less than two years but seek a divorce
- Divorce Lawyer Explains Resumption of Cohabitation
- Reaching a Property Settlement Agreement through Family Law Arbitration
- Collectables and your property settlement agreement
- Child Birth Maintenance: Covering the Cost of Having Your Child
- Family Violence And Decisions About Children
- Unjust Child Support Assessments: A Child Support Lawyers Guide
- Property Settlement Agreement – Can the Court Split Employment Bonuses?
- Mediation and Your Family Law Dispute
- Judicial Mediation: A New Option To Resolve Your Dispute
- Domestic Violence and Family Law
- Child Support Lawyers can help to challenge your assessment
- Family Law, Creditors and other third parties
- 5 Essential Skills of a Family Mediator
- Who Can Access My Family Court Records?
- Quick Questions Answered: Property Settlement Agreement
- How the Court deals with a significant financial contribution where the property value soared after rezoning
- Family Violence and Your Property Settlement Agreement
- I Didn’t Know – How You Can Get Out of A Property Settlement Agreement
- Domestic Violence Lawyer
- Property Settlement Agreement
- The Changing Stigma Associated with Signing a Prenuptial Agreement
- Divorce Lawyer Parramatta Explains the Requirements for a Binding Prenuptial Agreement
- Family Law Lawyers and Mediation
- Separation Lawyer Advice for Parenting after Divorce
- Wedding bells and preparations may be underway, but do you know the law if things don’t work out the way you planned? A Marriage Lawyer Can help
- Child Support Lawyers Advice – Changing Child Support Agreements
- Divorce Lawyers
- Binding Financial Agreements
- Child Custody
- Social Media Advice from a Separation Lawyer – The Do’s and the Don’ts
- Child Custody Laws and Child Custody Rights – Where do I start?
- Property Settlement Agreement
- Child Support Lawyers Advice to Separating Parents
- Do’s and Don’ts from a Separation Lawyer – Receiving Court Documents from your Former Partner
- How can a Marriage Lawyer Help?
- Domestic Violence
- Speaking to a Divorce Lawyer about Treatment of Assets after Separation
- Child Custody & Child Custody Laws
- Divorce Lawyer
- Child Support Lawyers
- Prenuptial Agreement
- Divorce Lawyer Parramatta
- Benefits of Consulting with a Marriage Lawyer
- What a Separation Lawyer Can Do For You
- Why you need to speak to a family law lawyer when thinking about a Prenuptial Agreement
- Domestic Violence and Family Law Lawyers
- Why you should speak to family law lawyers about travelling overseas with children after separation
- Why you should check with a separation lawyer about enforcing a property order against you ex’s superannuation
- Why should you speak to a separation lawyer about who keeps the engagement ring?
- The Sydney Property Market – How Family Law Lawyers deal with this?
- Prenuptial Agreement upheld on Appeal – De Facto Relationship with one woman while married to another
- Superannuation and Family Law Lawyers
- Who keeps the family dog? How a separation lawyer can help determine pet ownership
- Child Support Lawyers advice for Children over 18
- Double Trouble – Lesson to a Solicitor
- The Role of Child Support Lawyers
- Divorce Lawyer advice on the Impact of Divorce on Retirement
- Prenuptial Agreement
- Reaching parenting agreements with family law lawyers out of court
- Separation Lawyer and Property Orders
- Who do the laws concerning de facto relationships apply to?
- Considerations accounted for in property settlement disputes
- What is a Family Law Watchlist?
- How our family law lawyers can get the best outcome for you
- Child Custody Laws – How to place your child on the Family Law Watchlist
- Property Settlement Agreement – Courts Considerations
- Advice on child custody laws for situations of parental abduction
- Child Custody Laws – Recovering your child from parental abduction
- Child custody laws and parental abduction
- Child Custody Laws – Parental Abduction
- Child Custody Rights and the Growing Trend of ‘Parental Abduction’
- Divorces and Property Settlement Agreement
- Penalties associated with failing to comply with parenting order
- Applying for divorce? A divorce lawyer can help!
- De Facto Relationships and Property Settlement
- Divorce Lawyer Help: My partner gambled away our mortgage repayments
- Post-separation Parenting in the Digital Age
- Child custody rights when complying with Parenting Orders
- The dangers of the self-litigant accused of domestic violence in custody law
- The impact of domestic violence on custody advice
- Property Settlement Agreement – What Exactly Counts as Property?
- How to divide assets and debts in a property settlement agreement
- Children Support Services
- Property Settlements for De Facto Relationships
- Divorce Advice for Men
- Child Custody Laws – Recovery of Children
- Divorce Advice for Women
- Property Settlement Agreement in De Facto or Close Personal Relationship Breakup
- Child Custody Laws – Parenting Arrangements
- Marriage Breakup Advice – Spousal Maintenance
- Child Custody Laws: Parenting Plans and Parenting Orders
- I Want a Divorce
- I Want a Divorce – Married Less than Two Years
- Separation Lawyer on Separation Versus Divorce
- Divorce Property Settlements
- Divorce Lawyer Advice on Parenting Arrangements
- Divorce Lawyer Gives Ten Tips When You are Getting a Divorce
- Unequal Financial Contributions – Divorce Lawyer Advice
- Leaving relationships of abuse knowing your rights
- Child Custody Laws Urge Parents to be Realistic in Their Parenting Orders
- Making child custody ‘lives with’ and ‘spends time with’ arrangements for their children after separation
- Child custody arrangements after marriage breakdown without needing a judge
- Child Custody Arrangements When Communication Between Parents Breaks Down
- Parenting After Divorce – Child Custody Issues
- Effect of Discharge of Bankruptcy and Child Support Debt
- Third Party Debtors in Family Law
- Family trusts upon breakdown of a marriage
- Can My Ex Take the Kids Overseas?
- Grandparents and Child Custody Applications
- Can I Move With My Kids?
- Can I get full child custody?
- What is Parental Responsibility?
- Family Court Can Make Property Orders Even Before Parties Separate
- Family Law Act Changes to Property Settlement Agreement
- Category: Immigration
- Global Talent Program – Fast Track Visa for Skilled and Talented Individuals
- Visa & Permanent Residency Options for Hong Kong Residents
- COVID-19 – Is your visa about to expire? Are you unable to leave Australia?
- COVID-19 and its impact on your entry to Australia (as at April 1st 2020)
- New Skilled Regional Visas
- Permanent Visa – Sponsor Your Parents!
- Prospective Marriage Visa
- Migration Business Sponsorship Update
- 3 things to know when applying for a Partner visa
- Category: Insolvency & Restructuring
- From Big to Small and Out of Luck: How the new Closing Loopholes Legislation stops Insolvent Employers seeking to dodge Redundancy payments
- Significant Increased Insolvency Activity In Australia
- ATO aggressively pursuing tax debts owed by small business
- Getting the Appointment of an Insolvency Practitioner Right
- Like a Sitting Duck…or not – New Laws aimed at Closing Loopholes
- Solvency? I’m no expert, but …
- How Bankruptcy Can Go Entirely Wrong – for a Successful Creditor!!
- Australia’s personal insolvency system expected to surge; those with small savings buffers to bear the brunt
- The House that Estoppel Built?
- What Constitutes An ‘Unfair’ Term?
- What can be considered a “charge” when providing credit under the National Credit Code?
- Sorry, the feeling’s not mutual! – Set-off no longer available for unfair preference claims
- Standing to Stay?
- Bankruptcy reform: a vaccine for the economy?
- Draft Bankruptcy Regulations 2021
- Winding Up Applications and the Extension of Time
- WINDING UP BECAUSE IT’S JUST AND EQUITABLE
- I don’t owe them money: invoking bankruptcy jurisdiction to ‘look behind a judgment’
- SHOULD I INSTRUCT A LAWYER FOR DEBT COLLECTION?
- Debt Collection – What we are hearing from our clients
- BANKRUPT MAN CONVICTED OF CRIMINAL OFFENCES
- Criminal and civil penalties for creditor-defeating dispositions: Illegal Phoenixing Amendments 2020 #6
- Defences to Creditor-Defeating Dispositions: Illegal Phoenixing Amendments 2020 #5
- Virgin Australia – What Now?
- COVID-19 –What Debt will Scuttle Passage to the New Safe Harbours?
- Third Party Facilitators and Pre-Insolvency Advisers: Illegal Phoenixing Amendments 2020 #4
- COVID-19 Credit Crisis – Where can Accountants and Advisors Turn for Help?
- Virgin Australia Voluntary Administration – A Superhero Tactic?
- COVID-19: Will my hearing go ahead? – Part 2
- COVID-19 and Corporate Insolvency: New tax legislation directors need to know
- Creditor-Defeating Dispositions and Some Implications: Illegal Phoenixing Amendments 2020 #3
- COVID-19 and Corporate Insolvency: What should directors do?
- COVID-19: Will my hearing go ahead? – (Part 1)
- Insolvent Trading Advice for Clients Affected by COVID-19
- Creditor-Defeating Dispositions: Illegal Phoenixing Amendments 2020 #2
- Accountants Keeping Clients Afloat During COVID-19
- Helpful Resource on Directors’ Duties During Disaster
- COVID-19 and Corporate Insolvency: What obligations do directors have?
- Pre-Insolvency Advisers (and Several Innocent By-Standers) in the Cross-Hairs: Illegal Phoenixing Amendments 2020 #1
- COVID-19 and Corporate Insolvency in Australia
- Officer or Not? – Australian Security Investments Commission v King
- Debt Recovery: Who Do I Sue?
- When Should I Send A Letter of Demand?
- One Year Bankruptcies – Dead in the Water?
- Subpoena or Notice to Produce – how to get the documents you need!
- “Spooked” investors is not reason enough to change the ASIC register (even in the Halloween season)
- I Object!: The Importance of Strict Compliance with the Notice of Objection Regime
- Debt Collection – How not to
- Choose your words carefully – the consequences of non-payment of debts
- Special Leave Granted on Amerind Decision
- How does a trustee in bankruptcy sell jointly owned property?
- “New fees for the Personal Property Securities Register (PPSR) to commence 1 August
- “Holding” Deed of Company Arrangement found to be valid by High Court
- PRIORITY PAID?
- DEBT COLLECTION IN A SAFE HARBOUR
- AFSA Offence Referral Update
- CREDITORS AND THE INSOLVENCY LAW REFORM ACT 2016
- A matter of some interest…
- Fresh evidence – how fresh is fresh enough?
- Interstate Judgment Registration
- Out of Time (“Missed it, …. by THAT much”)!
- PPS registration not considered an “encumbrance” in a sale agreement.
- The Costs of a Telephone Call Continue to Rise….
- Securing Victory against Liquidators, Preferably
- THE DEBT RECOVERY PROCESS
- You’ve got mail! Requirements for Postal Service
- CGT Withholding Payments: How will they impact insolvency practitioners transferring property?
- Establishing Insolvency – Not a Foregone Conclusion
- You’ve been served!
- Decision Time
- The Constructive Result you Can Trust?
- Designated for Assignment
- Sign of the Times – What has your customer signed?
- The Bankruptcy Loophole
- Relation-back days for voidable transactions – the insolvency law reform amendments
- Disproportionately proportionate – the Sakr remuneration decision overturned
- International network of judges create Cross-Border Insolvency Guidelines
- Distribution by Direction
- Getting money out of straw
- THERE’S MANY A SLIP ‘TWIXT THE CUP AND LIP
- Fighting Fund Frustrated
- New Costs Procedure in the Federal Court – Important Changes for Insolvency Practitioners
- Special Delivery
- Payment claims, reference dates and adjudication determinations – the High Court in Southern Han Breakfast Point (In Liq) v Lewence Construction
- Supreme Court of NSW launches an Online Court
- Wrong name right party – the High Court’s decision in Simic
- When is a PPS registration effective?
- The Administrative Appeals Tribunal and the Bankruptcy Act – How far does its jurisdiction extend?
- It’s personal – Bankruptcy and Life Insurance
- Insolvency set-off trumps building and construction security of payments regime
- The Dog ate my Act
- What’s in a Name?
- Section 30 of the Bankruptcy Act
- Who examines the Examiner?
- Federal Court grants extension of limitation period for voidable transaction claims
- It Serves You Right?
- Federal Court appoints provisional liquidators to Uglii Corporation Limited
- Creditor’s statutory demand not set aside on basis of funds being applied by creditor towards a different debt following issuing of demand
- Paying building and construction industry adjudication determination amounts to potentially insolvent companies
- Proceedings against director in respect of guarantee of company debt not prevented when proceedings commenced prior to administration
- US bankruptcy recognised in Australia
- Liquidator Ordered to Personally Pay Costs
- Appointing a voluntary administrator: a recent case reminds us of the basic principles
- Legal Costs: Clients Need to be Proactive
- Finding a debt collection service that is right for your business (Part Two)
- Finding a debt collection service that is right for your business (Part One)
- IT’S OKAY TO SAY NO
- Bankrupt – Fight or Flight?
- ASIC’s supervision of registered liquidators
- Do you Trust me?
- A Nation of Failures?
- Indemnity costs
- Insolvency Practitioners to the Rescue when all hope is gone!
- What is a PPS Lease?
- Liquidators and Trustees beware when dealing with proofs of debt from payday lenders
- Amendments to the Bankruptcy Regulations
- PPSA: Court extends time to register a security interest
- Personal Property Securities Act 2009 (Cth) – One year after inception of the PPSR
- Title under the PPSA – always the bridesmaid
- The importance of identifying securities registered on the PPSR
- Requirement to file a Genuine Steps Statement
- Category: Intellectual Property
- Intellectual Property Protection – What you need to know!
- Google v Defteros – Who defamed who?
- Madrid Classifications – Uploaded!
- Intellectual Property Employer or Employee…who owns the rights?
- Intellectual Property Rights
- When is Trade Mark Infringing
- Employer or Employee…who owns the rights?
- Metaverse vs Reality: Intellectual Property Rights
- When is a trade mark infringing?
- Category: Litigation & Dispute Resolution
- Transferring Proceedings to Another Court
- Malass v Strathfield Municipal Council [2022] NSWLEC 1160
- But I thought we had an agreement!!
- Contracts Involving Public Authorities
- NSW Supreme Court – When are executed lease documents binding
- Breaches of the Council Model Code of Conduct – A Lesson for Councillors
- COVID19 – IP Australia provides relief by way of extensions
- COVID-19, self-isolation, and witnessing documents
- Resolving Issues with Local Councils
- Category: Local Government
- Payment of Lodgement Fee is Essential for Making a Development Application – Lessons from Hinkler Ave 1 Pty Limited v Sutherland Shire Council [2023] NSWCA 264
- The Introduction of Transport Oriented Development to the State Environmental Planning Policy (Housing) 2021
- Proposed Reforms for Low and Medium Density Housing
- Limits to the power to amend undetermined development applications during Class 1 appeal proceedings before the Land and Environment Court (LEC)
- NCAT affirms Disciplinary Decision to Disqualify Certifier from Registration for 10 years.
- Effect of Having a Dog Declared Dangerous by a Local Council
- An Overhaul of the Taxation Scheme: Developments for Developers
- How do I object to a Development Application?
- State-wide Standard Conditions of Consent and Notices of Determination Now in Use
- McMillan v Taylor
- The Public Spaces (Unattended Property) Act 2021 (NSW) repeals the Impounding Act 1993 (NSW)
- Case Summary: NSW Land and Environment Court rules on Proposed Developments in a Boatyard at Berrys Bay
- When does a savings provision apply? Three cases to help navigate savings provision
- Personal Information & Data Breaches – Obligations for NSW State and Local Government Entities
- NSW Parliamentary Inquiry’s Report on the Response to the Major Flooding Across NSW in 2022
- Overview of the Greater Cities Commission
- Who is Responsible for Infrastructure in Flood Prone Land Downstream of Warragamba Dam?
- EPA v Riverina (Australia) [2015] NSWCCA 165
- The Office of Local Government releases the Model Social Media Policy and the Model Councillor and Staff Interaction Policy
- New Guidance Released for Preparing or Assessing Biodiversity Development Assessment Reports
- Consolidation of State Environmental Planning Policies
- Environmental Planning and Assessment Regulation 2021
- New State Environmental Planning Policy for Housing Imminent
- Minister’s Planning Principles and the Consolidation of SEPPs
- BSCA v EPA: Litigation for climate change action
- Updated Guidance for Councils – Flood Prone Land
- Application Modification
- Laws for the Paws
- Impact of Australia’s Foreign Relations (State and Territory Arrangements) Act 2020 on Local Governments
- New Practice Note Issued in NSW on Voluntary Planning Agreements
- Home owners should not underestimate the importance of Council approval!
- Overlapping responsibilities in Condition of consents for music festivals
- Universal 1919 Pty Ltd v 122 Pitt Street Pty Ltd [2020] NSWCA 50
- Secretary, Department of Planning, Industry and Environment v Wollongong Recycling (NSW) Pty Ltd [2020] NSWLEC 125
- Clarity Regarding Council Entry to a Residential Premise
- Difficulties due to COVID-19 not an excuse to vacate a hearing date
- State Government Regulations: Public Meeting and Hearing Restrictions
- Environmental Planning and Assessment Regulation 2000 Repeal Postponed
- UTSG Pty Ltd v Sydney Metro (No 6) [2020] NSWLEC 63
- Introduction of Local Government COVID 19 Regulations – Financial Relief
- COVID-19: New Amendments Affecting Councils
- COVID-19: Changes to Council Meetings and Other Businesses
- Requests pursuant to GIPA Act
- Builders Beware – The Importance of Council Approval
- Part 6 of the Environmental Planning and Assessment Act is Finally Coming into Effect (Hopefully)!
- An Ethical Issue Expert Witness Opinions
- Amber Light Approach – Where to from Now?
- Social Media Liability: Are you liable for comments made on your Facebook page?
- Interlocutory Injunction at the Land and Environment Court
- The Importance of Grampian conditions
- Clarification on the Meaning of “Land” in Section 57 of the Heritage Act
- Recent amendments made to the Local Government Act 1993 No 30
- No ‘Character of the Local Area’ in diverse neighbourhoods
- Case Note: Port Macquarie-Hastings Council v Mansfield
- New Land and Environment Court Class 3 Compensation Claims Practice Note
- Potential Changes to NSW Aboriginal Planning Rules through the Aboriginal Land SEPP
- Removal of Shrubs to Prevent Consents from Lapsing
- Beyond the Usual Argy Bargy – How Repeated Amendments to Class 1 Appeal Application Can Lead to General Costs Order
- Torrens Title Lot – What defines ‘land’?
- Changes to Short–Terms Rental Accommodations – Is the Holiday Over?
- Compulsory changes to NSW Parking Fines – 10 Minute Grace Period
- Section 34 Conciliation Conferences – Requirement for Reasons
- Protection of the Environment Operations Amendment (Asbestos Waste) Bill 2018
- Inland Code: Simplifying development approval in Regional Code
- Is the need for a neutral or better outcome a requirement for success with respect to clause 4.6?
- Deferred Commencement Consents
- Sentencing Principles for Water Pollution Offences
- Powers of a Sydney District or Regional Planning Panel to “direct and control” a Council under the new amendments to the Environmental Planning and Assessment Act in a Class 1 Appeal:
- Commencement of the Low Rise Medium Density Housing Code
- The New South Wales Land and Environment Court exercises its ‘repeat waste offender’ powers in landmark gaol sentence
- EPA Fines Company $30,000 for Breaching Licence and Polluting Waters
- Supreme Court decision highlights the importance of careful preparation of Proposed Acquisition Notices
- The New Crown Land Management Act 2016
- Can an intervener/objector participate in s34 conciliation conference after the onsite consultation?
- Increased Council and Court Powers under the recently reformed Environment Planning and Assessment Act
- Justice Legislation Amendment Act 2018
- New Land and Environment Court Practice Notes
- Court Invalidates Minister’s Decision
- Enforcing Environmental Laws in the Land and Environment Court
- Mandatory Local Planning Panels
- Prefabricated Buildings Pty Ltd v Bathurst Regional Council (No.2) [2017] NSWLEC 111
- Recent changes to the planning principles in relation to brothel
- Can Council charge for services based on availability of services and actual use of services?
- Councils to Lose Ability to Assess some DAs
- Costly Coal Spill in World Heritage Area
- Importance of Careful Drafting for Council Contracts
- A Compensation Claim relating to Resumption of Land in 1922
- Planning & Development Law: Amended Plans affixed to Joint Expert Reports
- Costly Coal Spill in World Heritage Area
- Local Councils: Waste Less, Recycle More Grants
- The Benefits of Mediation
- Swimming Pools – Selling or Leasing a property
- What part of the Pasteurised Garden Organic Order and Exemption applies to Council and what requirements are expected from Council?
- Proposed changes to planning rules for outdoor advertising and signage
- Council Liability as Roads Authority – Case Note: Oberlechner v Hornsby Shire Council [2017] NSWSC 23
- Compulsory Acquisition – Recent Developments in relation to an “interest” in land
- Online Development Applications
- Vesting of Transferable Crown land in Local Councils
- How do the new Mulch Order and Exemption 2016 Impact on Councils’ tree maintenance operations?
- Proposed Amendments to the Environmental Planning & Assessment Act
- Amalgamated Local Councils – Stronger Communities Fund
- Development Without Consent
- DA lodgement to move online
- Local Council Amalgamations: City/Country Policy Division
- Local Council Amalgamations – Potential Backflip
- Incorporating an Environmental Group
- Public Parkland Challenge in the Land and Environment Court
- EPA fines Albury City Council – Odours from Waste Centre
- Pollution Licences under the POEO Act
- Local Council Fined for Unlicensed Radioactive Sources
- New Local Government Amendment (Governance and Planning) Bill 2016
- Environmental Law Update – Proposed Changes to Local Government Tendering
- Compulsory Acquisitions – Whose Minerals?
- Injunction granted to save the environment
- Local Government (Early Intervention) Bill 2013
- Local Government Act 1993 Reform
- Powers of the Small Business Commissioner Over Councils
- Case update – Wilpinjong Coal Pty Limited v Mid-Western Regional Council; Ulan Coal Mines Limited v Mid-Western Regional Council [2012] NSWLEC 277
- Directors Environmental Liability – Changes to Corporate Offences
- Councils Powers of Sale and Possession
- Council Tangled in Negligence
- Category: Planning & Environment
- New employment zones are now in effect!
- Interim Heritage Orders
- Case summary – EPA v Sydney Water Corporation [2020] NSWLEC 153
- Key Amendments to the Environmental Planning and Assessment Act
- Hefty Fine in Polluting Waters Prosecution
- Vesting of Transferable Crown land in Local Councils
- Council Liability as Roads Authority
- Proposed Amendments to the Environmental Planning & Assessment Act
- AGL’s Failure to Disclose Political Donations
- Reform of NSW Environmental Law
- Changes to Coastal Management
- New Report on Short-Term Rental Accommodation
- Development Application rejected for former Balmain Leagues Club Site
- New Rezoning Review Process Announced
- Exceptions to Development Standards
- Protection of the Environment Operations (Clean Air) Amendment (Cruise Ships) Regulation 2015
- Environmental Planning and Assessment Amendment (Notification of Neighbours) Regulation 2015
- Conditions of Consent and Security Cameras
- Joint conference of experts policy in the Land and Environment Court
- Practice Notes in the Land and Environment Court
- Complying Development – An update in Trives v Hornsby Shire Council
- Costs awarded for failure to discharge prosecutorial duties
- Challenging Development Consent for Loss of View
- Power to Councils in Telco Planning
- Can a council make long-term agreements about rates liabilities?
- Fluoridation and Part 5 of the EP&A Act
- Rural Fire 10/50 Vegetation Clearing Update
- Recent Case – Prosecution Investigation Costs
- NSW Government introduces tougher fines for pollution offences
- Fines for Illegal Dumping at Charity Locations
- Biosecurity Bill
- The meaning of ‘detached studio’ under the Codes SEPP
- Bushfire Hazard Reduction and Vegetation Clearing
- When will a construction certificate be inconsistent with a development consent?
- Mining company fined for water pollution
- Environment Protection Authority v Coal and Allied Operations Pty Ltd
- Case Law update – EPA v Aargus Pty Ltd; Kariotoglou; Kelly
- Accessory offences
- New Categories of Corporate Offences
- Planning case update – invalid condition of consent
- Category: Property Law & Strata
- Important information for Landlords & Tenants regarding Make-Good
- Lease Incentive Deeds and Tenant Default.
- Leases – Heads of Agreement
- Important information for Landlords & Tenants regarding make-good
- Unjust strata by-laws and unreasonable strata levies
- Reforms to the Retirement Villages Act
- Significant Changes to NSW Duty and Land Tax in 2024
- Strata – Electric Vehicle Ready Buildings Grant
- Recent developments in the appointment of strata managers and their validity
- Tax refunds available! Surcharge purchaser duty and surcharge land tax in breach of international tax treaties
- Historic Property Tax Legislation in NSW Passes in Parliament
- New laws in NSW significantly expands the types of transactions subject to duty
- New Health Orders and police powers for Apartment Buildings
- Short-term letting restrictions and how they impact you
- Strata Laws on Pets and Animals
- Phasing out of Certificates of Title and the expansion of electronic conveyancing
- Phasing out of Certificate of Titles and the expansion of electronic conveyancing
- Phasing out of Certificates of Title and the expansion of electronic conveyancing
- Building defects in strata buildings and the legislative safeguards
- Construction Laws in Strata Communities
- Strata – COVID Stay at Home Orders
- NCAT Tribunal and what it can do for you in strata?
- VOI requirements and processes for Property, Strata and Community Schemes Participants
- National Cabinet Mandatory Code of Conduct (Code) for Commercial Tenants and Landlords released on 7 April, 2020
- COVID-19: Critical Matters for Commercial & Retail Tenants and Landlords
- Obtaining access to a neighbouring property
- Tax Sting – Living/Moving Overseas
- Purchasing off-the plan: is it the right way to go?
- Changes to Property Transactions
- Unjust Put and Call Options – When a developer Comes Knocking
- AIRBNB – LEASE OR LICENCE?
- Property Law – Retail Leases Act Changes
- Property Law – CBD Changes
- Property Law tested by Developer
- Property Law changes to Off-the-Plan Contract
- New South Wales moving towards a paperless conveyancing future
- Strata committee powers and obligations
- Repair and Maintenance
- Owners Corporation and Financial Management
- Financial Management
- Strata Management
- Process of strata renewal plans
- Collective sale or redevelopment
- Repairs to new strata buildings
- Effect of new Legislation
- Strata Legislation
- How the foreign resident capital gains withholding payments will affect your conveyancing transaction and why you should speak with a Property Lawyer before buying property
- NEW! Off the Plan Sale of Land Changes
- Rural/Primary Production and Land Tax – Revenue Ruling No. LT 097
- Purchaser’s Interest Before Completion
- Swimming Pool Compliance – Why You Need to be Worried
- Transferring Assets to Avoid Creditors
- Importance of Lease Agreements
- Case Update – Prior landlords potentially liable for past GST
- Important changes to NSW Crown Land Laws
- Retail Tenant’s Right to Prevent Competition through Retail Lease Legislation
- Who pays the GST in the sale of a Property?
- Competing Buyers not Always a Pot of Gold
- Tenants Generally not bound by Conditions after Assignment
- Case Update: Limitations on Removing Options to Renew
- Taxation Update for Property Developers using Trusts for Capital Gains Tax Discounts
- Case Update: Late Exercise of an Option to Renew
- Difference between Joint Tenants and Tenants in Common
- National e-Conveyancing with PEXA
- Case Update – Adverse Possession and Additional Interests
- Unjust Circumstances to fight a Contract
- Superfund Trustees – Be Aware and Informed of New Changes
- Important ATO Private Ruling that all SMFS’ funds should be aware of in relation to limited recourse borrowing and SMSF’s
- Swimming Pools Update
- When will a Construction Certificate be Inconsistent with a Development Consent?
- Real Estate Updates – Exclusive Agency Agreements
- Real Estate – Statutory Provisions and Priorities
- Leasing Updates
- Reduced Deposits – Gubbay v Burnet
- Commercial Properties – NABER Certificates
- What is a Cooling Off Period?
- Can Contract price rebates lead to fraud?
- Does the Retail Leases Act apply to your Lease?
- The National Credit Code
- Category: Publications
- Category: Strata Law
- How duty of care works in favour of property and strata owners
- Strata Defects and Project Intervene NSW
- Building Defects Update for Strata Owners
- COVID-19 Laws on Strata and Community Schemes
- Debt recovery and strata lot owner goes missing?
- Strata Legal Advice Made Easy
- Compulsory Strata Management
- Building defects in strata buildings and the legislative safeguards
- Combustible cladding problems in strata apartments
- Removal of Vehicles Illegally Parked on Strata Land
- Common Problems with Common Property Rights By-Laws
- Covid-19 laws and new processes applicable to strata and community schemes
- Category: Wills & Estate Planning
- Claims against an Estate
- Capacity Issues In Estate Planning
- A Will Lawyer’s Advice relating to Capacity to make a Will
- Can an unsigned Microsoft word document be accepted by the Court as a Will?
- Navigating Family Provision Claims
- The Trouble with the Bank of Mum & Dad
- Basic Will For a Competitive Price
- Wishful thinking: when is a “wish” expressed in a will binding on the executor?
- Superannuation is an important part of estate planning
- De Facto Partners and Intestacy
- Contesting Estates – when they happen and who has a claim?
- Probate Caveats (NSW)
- Intestacy – the rules of Succession
- Superannuation, SMSFs and Trustees – How do they interact with your Estate
- Choosing the Right Executor
- Digital Assets in Your Will
- Estate Planning for Blended Families
- Guardianship of Minors and Your Will
- Testamentary Trust Wills
- Notional Estate – what does it mean
- Financial managers and attorneys – what can happen if they act without authority?
- Estate Planning and Will Disputes
- Power of Attorney Revoked or Renounced
- Residential Aged Care Agreements
- Will Disputes – Who can be a claimant?
- Property in an Estate
- Will Makers – Coercion and Undue Influence
- Mutual Wills and Mirror Wills
- Claim against my estate
- Contesting Estates
- COVID and your Will
- Will Disputes and Testamentary Capacity
- Capacity and Estate Planning
- The Need to Consider Superannuation – Recent Case Development
- Elder Financial Abuse – Unconscionable Conduct
- Elder Financial Abuse: Enduring Power of Attorney
- Do you need to update Your Will?
- Do Millennials have to think of making a Will?
- Power of Attorneys & their Role in Estate Planning
- Estate Planning – Frequently asked questions
- How Wills Incorporating Trusts Can Be of Benefit to Your Estate and Beneficiaries
- Contested Estates
- Can I include my superannuation in my Will?
- Is my sibling entitled to more inheritance than me?
- Initiating a Will Dispute due to Mental Capacity
- The Family Home, Superannuation and Powers of Attorney
- Why should I not do my will online?
- Abuses of Power of Attorney
- Promises to leave a bequest from an estate
- Evidence of a Will maker’s intentions
- Terms used in a Will
- Claims against an Estate
- DOES MARRIAGE AFFECT YOUR WILL?
- Binding Death Nominations (I heard it on the radio)
- A Will Lawyer’s answers to SMSF questions
- COVID-19 WE ARE HERE TO SUPPORT YOU
- Family Provision Claims in a Deceased Estate
- Undue influence, Coercion and Wills
- Capacity Issues In Estate Planning
- Estate Planning – Residential Aged Care Agreement
- Literary Executor
- Intestacy rules of the Succession
- Executors of Estates
- Blended Families and Mutual Wills
- Will Lawyer for non-English speaking clients
- How a Will Lawyer can Assist Non-English Speaking Clients
- Estate Planning and Superannuation
- Wills and protecting your children
- Estate Planning – Extinct Institutions in a Will
- Contested Wills – Death Bed Wills
- Will Disputes and Removal of Executors
- Difference between joint tenancy and tenant in common important to consider in estate planning
- The notional estate rules in NSW and why does it matter?
- When can a power of attorney be revoked or renounced?
- Who will look after my children if I die?
- Different Reasons to Dispute a Will
- Gifts to successors before passing
- I don’t have any assets – do I need a Will?
- What is a testamentary trust Will
- Self-Managed Super Funds and Binding Death benefit Nominations
- What assets can the Court deal with
- Consequences if you don’t have a Will
- Your ex-spouse may have a claim on your estate
- Appointment of Enduring Guardians
- What duties does an executor have?
- What happens if someone dies without a Will?
- How can I pass on my property, shareholding and other business assets?
- Superannuation Complaints Tribunal – Recent Case
- Intestacy
- Excluding someone from inheritance after death
- Someone left me out of their Will
- Can an ex-spouse contest my Will?
- Estate Planning issues following the break down of a relationship
- What happens when a de facto partner dies without a Will?
- Superannuation: NSW Relationships Register
- Property co-ownership: protecting yourself from the potential pitfalls
- Have you been left out of a Will?
- Can my Will be contested?
- Category: Strata
- Strata Building Defects – Protections for Owners
- Rewrite to Community Land Development and Management Acts
- COVID LAWS for STRATA
- Renewal, Upgrade, Redevelopment and Sale Processes for Strata Buildings
- Short Term Letting Restrictions
- Property Law Tested by Developer
- Changes to Property Laws – Strata
- Changes to Short-Term Rental Accommodations – Is the Holiday Over
- Category: Uncategorized
- Can a video recorded on a phone constitute a valid last will?
- Superannuation Death Benefit Considerations in the Estate Plan
- Writing your own Will and Will Disputes
- The importance of making a will as a Parent.
- Can a Will signed on an iPad be admitted to Probate?
- When there’s a will, there’s a way!
- “Drafting a Will is simple, and cheap…isn’t it?”
- WHY GET A WILL LAWYER TO PREPARE YOUR WILL?
- Legal Costs Associated with Will Disputes
- Contesting a Will
- I have an unsecured debt with a bankrupt – will I get any money back?
- WILL DISPUTES IN NSW
- How to stop your ex taking the children overseas – Family Law Lawyer reviews overseas travel issues
- Are my digital assets a part of my estate?
- Real Estate in Estate Planning
- Can a non-family member initiate a Will dispute?
- I don’t have a Will: what are the consequences?
- How to Choose the Right Executor
- Are you eligible to contest a Will
- De Facto Partner Dies with No Will
- How often should I update my Will
- How Effective is my Will?
- Mirror Wills and Mutual Wills
- How effective is my Will?
- The judge, jury and executioner: a Trustee’s capacity to adjudicate proofs of debt for legal fees
- A Will Lawyer’s Advice relating to Capacity to make a Will
- COVID-19 – Financial Assistance for NSW Businesses
- New legislation – witnessing of documents in the COVID-19 climate
- Important GST Withholding Legislation
- Giant new role for Matt de Boer!
- Planning Principle Update: Brothels
- Property Law – State Budget
Team
- Michael Stevens
- Zeeshaan Nordien
- Gigi Au
- Simone Brew
- Stephen Mullette
- Jeff Brown
- Peter Doughman
- Stewart Gough
