News

Dec 17, 2020

UniLodge Aus­tralia Pty Ltd & Anor v the Own­ers Stra­ta plan 54026 [2020] NSW­CATCD | Costs decision

In a pre­vi­ous new arti­cle (here), Helen Kow­al – Part­ner and Sean Green­wood – Senior Asso­ciate, recent­ly act­ed for a lot owner/​building man­ag­er in a stra­ta appli­ca­tion to the NSW Civ­il and Admin­is­tra­tive Tri­bunal, suc­cess­ful­ly seek­ing orders for the removal of the exist­ing stra­ta com­mit­tee and for the com­pul­so­ry appoint­ment of a stra­ta man­ag­er…

Nov 10, 2020

Hol­i­day Office Clo­sure 2020

If you need to speak with one of our lawyers, please call +61 2 9233 5544. We wish you a hap­py hol­i­days and a pros­per­ous new year!…

Sep 21, 2020

A spe­cial thank you to all our clients

Client feed­back and con­tin­u­ous improve­ment are impor­tant to us at Swaab and form a key com­po­nent of our Swaab Brand of Service.  The key find­ings included: we exceed­ed your expec­ta­tions when it comes to our performance you find us extreme­ly easy to work with, and  you are like­ly to rec­om­mend your key con­tact and…

Jun 15, 2020

Inter­view | Con­struc­tion com­pa­nies must avoid cost­ly legal disputes

Helen shares insights and strate­gies on how to avoid dis­putes. You can find the full inter­view ​‘here’. …

Jun 15, 2020

Legal­wise Sem­i­nar | Law for Archi­tects: Con­tracts, Plan­ning & Disputes

A link to the full pro­gram of events can be found here. The pro­gram has been devel­oped for archi­tects specif­i­cal­ly around the new Design and Build­ing Prac­ti­tion­ers Act 2020 (which came into effect last Thurs­day 11 June 2020).Helen’s pre­sen­ta­tion will cov­er the fol­low­ing areas:How did the Draft Bill come about?What does it mean for…

Jun 5, 2020

The building defects crisis | Q&A webinar

Helen will be joined by our lead­ing experts across a range of areas from archi­tec­ture, engi­neer­ing, water­proof­ing, fire and cladding to dis­cuss all aspects that are impact­ing on con­struc­tion indus­try, where we are going wrong, what we are doing right and what we need to do to min­imise the prob­lems that…

Apr 24, 2020

COVID-19 | Wit­ness­ing the exe­cu­tion of doc­u­ments dur­ing the pandemic

What’s news in New South Wales? The Elec­tron­ic Trans­ac­tions Amend­ment (COVID-19 Wit­ness­ing of Doc­u­ments) Reg­u­la­tion 2020 (NSW) The COVID-19 Leg­is­la­tion Amend­ment (Emer­gency Mea­sures) Act 2020 (NSW) includ­ed a reg­u­la­tion-mak­ing pow­er in sec­tion 17 of Elec­tron­ic Trans­ac­tions Act 2000 (NSW) (the Act) to pro­vide for altered arrange­ments for the sig­na­ture, wit­ness­ing or attes­ta­tion…

Mar 31, 2020

Swaab’s Prop­er­ty, Plan­ning & Projects team ranked in Doyles Guide 2020

Once again, our Prop­er­ty, Plan­ning and Projects (PPP) team has been named as a Rec­om­mend­ed firm in the Doyles Lead­ing Prop­er­ty & Real Estate Law Firms – NSW, 2020. This award recog­nis­es firms prac­tis­ing with­in the areas of trans­ac­tion­al, leas­ing and devel­op­ment prop­er­ty mat­ters in the NSW legal mar­ket who have been…

Mar 25, 2020

UPDATE #2 COVID-19 | Swaab Busi­ness Con­ti­nu­ity | 25 March 2020

As the cri­sis con­tin­ues to unfold in Aus­tralia, we have made the deci­sion that from Thurs­day 26 March 2020 our entire work­force (includ­ing part­ners) will work remotely.  We are very for­tu­nate, that as far as we are aware none of our peo­ple have con­tract­ed Covid-19. We are com­mit­ted to pro­vid­ing an excel­lent…

Mar 17, 2020

UPDATE COVID-19 | Swaab Busi­ness Con­ti­nu­ity | 17 March 2020

Over the past few weeks, with the esca­la­tion of the COVID-19 out­break, we at Swaab have tak­en pre­cau­tions to ensure the safe­ty, health and well­be­ing of our peo­ple, clients and visitors. As the cri­sis con­tin­ues to increase in Aus­tralia, we have made the deci­sion that from Mon­day 23 March 2020 we…