Articles
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30 November 2007
Workplace Law & Culture
Forward with Fairness - but where to? What will the new governmen…
Now that the Labor Party has won the election, what will this mean for workplace relations in your business?
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26 November 2007
Environment & Planning
Costs in the Land and Environment Court - the final word?
The question of costs in the Land and Environment Court has long been a vexed one.
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26 November 2007
Environment & Planning
Tree (Disputes between Neighbours) Act 2006 - courts ...
From the commencement of this Act, there has been early growth in the number of cases lodged.
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20 November 2007
Competition & Consumer
Your distribution agreement - is it worth the paper it's written…
Having a thorough and well written distribution agreement is important.
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12 October 2007
Property
Westfield easement case decided - financial implications & risks…
The case highlights the need to exercise care when drafting easement terms and that the financial implications of having the benefit (or not) of an easement can be huge.
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28 September 2007
Wills & Estate Planning
Fixed Costs for Family Provision Act Claims
The Problem The Chief Justice of the NSW Supreme Court has on a number of occasions made references to increasing legal costs in litigation and the need for lawyers to review the basis upon which they charge. He has suggested that lawyers need to re…
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24 August 2007
Competition & Consumer
The petrol price fixing case - does this change whether you can d…
Many of our clients will have followed the Geelong petrol price fixing case with interest.
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07 August 2007
Workplace Law & Culture
Employers, lock up your secrets! What to do when ex-employees use…
An old Arabian proverb observes that a secret is like a dove: when it leaves one?s hand, it takes wing.
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25 July 2007
Wills & Estate Planning
Wills & Estates Law Update - case law on disputed wills & news on…
Becker -v- Public Trustee & 2 Ors [2006] NSWSC 743 dealt with alleged suspicious circumstances surrounding the last Will of an elderly spinster.
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20 July 2007
Work Health & Safety
Death of a worker at a workplace social function not in the cours…
We discuss Haider v JP Morgan Holdings Aust Limited trading as JP Morgan Operations Australia Limited (2007) NSW.
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17 July 2007
Finance & Capital
Mortgage duty relief arrives early - government abolishes duty ah…
The two exemptions take effect on 1 September 2007 and 1 July 2008 but only apply if the borrower or borrowers are natural persons.
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10 July 2007
Workplace Law & Culture
Stop Press - More documents, more dollars: new worksheets & incre…
The long awaited Workplace Relations Fact Sheet has now arrived and from 1 October 2007 minimum wage rates are increased.
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01 June 2007
Workplace Law & Culture
Employment law: testing times for Work Choices
Work Choices - the legislation that dare not speak its name.
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31 May 2007
Wills & Estate Planning
Wills & Estates Law Update - settlements for minors, forensic exa…
Two recent cases are a reminder that care needs to be taken in relation to Court settlements involving minors.
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21 May 2007
Corporate Governance
Pssst .... Secret Commissions - misleading & deceptive and possib…
We have had much recent interest from our clients on the subject of secret commissions. Confusion reigns with this topic, so we thought we?d clear the air.
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19 April 2007
Work Health & Safety
Workers compensation: High Court decision on employer's obligatio…
In this bulletin we look at a decision of the High Court that may have a significant impact on employers and insurers and employer?s obligations to take out 'State insurance?.
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18 April 2007
Competition & Consumer
Caught by the Code? Working under the Franchising Code of Conduct
If your business involves selling goods and services through others, there is a risk that the arrangement constitutes a franchise agreement under the Code.
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30 March 2007
Workplace Law & Culture
New laws about independent contractors - more certainty for emplo…
On 1 March 2007 the new Federal Independent Contractors Act came into operation, continuing the Federal Government?s clean sweep of workplace relations.