Articles
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03 July 2014
Corporate Governance
Update: Increase in ASIC fees with 2014-15 financial year
A complete summary of the revised ASIC Fees is on the ASIC website, but these changes are to the most common fees.
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26 June 2014
Workplace Law & Culture
Changes to all things Employment at the end of the financial year
The end of the financial year is a time of change, and in particular to the Fair Work Act and related legislation.
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26 June 2014
Deceased Estates
Gifts in contemplation of death - prudent estate planning can avo…
Proactive and prudent estate planning prior to death may overcome the risk and costs associated with legal proceedings .
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25 June 2014
Work Health & Safety
Lump sum compensation - further clarification post Goudappel
We anticipate an increase in the number of \"top up\" claims being made by workers who previously made lump sum claims.
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12 June 2014
Finance & Capital
When is a release not a release (and settlement of debt)?
This case is a good reminder to take care when negotiating a settlement to a dispute involving a number of co-sureties.
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12 June 2014
Personal Property Securities
The hire industry's submission to the Whittaker Review of the PPS…
The Hire & Rental Industry Association and the Elevating Work Platform Association have lodged a submission to the review.
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11 June 2014
Work Health & Safety
Is it too late to transition workers to the new weekly compensati…
WIRO considered the problem of validly transitioning weekly payment entitlements of an existing recipient of compensation.
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05 June 2014
Workplace Law & Culture
The fight for talent: all is fair in love and war - employment co…
Many businesses prosper by their capacity to lure the best and brightest away from their competitors to work with them
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26 May 2014
Workplace Law & Culture
Care and common-sense in safety in the workplace
The duty to ensure safety, so far as is practicable, is more likely if the business can show a strong safety culture.
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19 May 2014
Dispute Resolution & Advisory
A principal's antidote to adjudication - recourse to security?
This decision may provide an effective alternative for a principal who is disappointed by an adjudicator?s determination.
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16 May 2014
Work Health & Safety
High Court decides the Goudappel appeal for workers compensation
Mr Goudappel?s entitlement to lump sum impairment compensation was extinguished as he did not meet the 11% WPI threshold.
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12 May 2014
Dispute Resolution & Advisory
How not to get caught by security of payment changes in the build…
Principals and head contractors need to ensure their systems for payment can cope with the mandatory payment timeframes.
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05 May 2014
Dispute Resolution & Advisory
A wider scope for liquidators to attack unreasonable director-rel…
A transaction which benefits another company in which the director is a shareholder may now be attacked by a liquidator.
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29 April 2014
Personal Property Securities
PPSA bites the hire industry again. But will the government tame…
Hire businesses will be hoping that the Whittaker review eventually leads to an outcome ameliorating the impact of PPSA.
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28 April 2014
Corporate Governance
Shareholders' agreement or constitution - which document prevails…
Review both documents to ensure that the intention in the shareholders? agreement is not frustrated by the constitution.
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28 April 2014
Public Liability
Apportionment of defendants' costs in workers compensation litiga…
Costs exposure in multi-defendant work injury litigation may not be reduced to take account of the insured?s negligence.
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24 April 2014
Work Health & Safety
Resurrection of journey claims of personal injury and workers com…
There must be a 'real and substantial connection? between work and the accident or incident of the compensation claim.
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16 April 2014
Wills & Estate Planning
Courts warn - inheritance is not an entitlement for family provis…
Courts respect the freedom of willmakers to dispose of their assets to whomever, and interfere only to a minimum extent.