News

Sep 19, 2014

War­wick Ryan fea­tured in Smart­Com­pa­ny on Fair Work case

Swaab employ­ment law spe­cial­ist War­wick Ryan has been fea­tured in Smart­Com­pa­ny on the recent fair work case involv­ing a Mel­bourne radio sta­tion that must now back-pay two of their for­mer radio pre­sen­ters more than $60,000 in out­stand­ing wages and entitlements. While 3CW Chi­nese Radio Pty Ltd ini­tial­ly main­tained the for­mer pre­sen­ters were…

Sep 18, 2014

Matthew Hall fea­tured in Smart Com­pa­ny on ACC­C’s action against Woolworth

Swaab IP part­ner, Matthew Hall has been fea­tured in Smart­Com­pa­ny com­ment­ing on the ACC­C’s action against Wool­worth over prod­uct safety. The Aus­tralian Com­pe­ti­tion and Con­sumer Com­mis­sion is tak­ing super­mar­ket giant Wool­worths to court over sev­er­al unsafe prod­ucts, includ­ing a deep fry­er that alleged­ly burnt cus­tomers and a fold­ing stool that could not with­stand…

Aug 29, 2014

Swaab in BBC arti­cle on ​‘Should anti-tat­too dis­crim­i­na­tion be illegal?’

Swaab employ­ment part­ner Richard Ott­ley’s arti­cle on ​‘Can an employ­er ban tat­toos in the work­place?’ has been fea­tured in BBC news mag­a­zine online. Richard’s arti­cle dis­cuss­es whether an employ­er can pre­vent tat­toos and high­lights dif­fer­ent inter­na­tion­al approach­es to tat­toos in the work­place.> READ THE ARTICLE…

Aug 21, 2014

Swaab announced final­ist in ALP­MA thought lead­er­ship awards

Swaab is pleased to announce that it was named a final­ist in the ALP­MA Thought Lead­er­ship Awards for the devel­op­ment of the ​“USB sep­a­ra­tion sur­vival kit”. This Sur­vival Kit is dis­crete­ly and inno­v­a­tive­ly stored on a flash dri­ve USB stick and is aimed at pro­vid­ing peo­ple going through the dif­fi­cul­ties of a rela­tion­ship or…

Jul 25, 2014

Paul Bren­nan fea­tured in Lawyers Weekly

Swaab part­ner Paul Bren­nan has been fea­tured in the Lawyers Week­ly Part­ner Pro­file. Paul talks about his major career high­lights and what he likes about being a lawyer, ​“Being able to roll up your sleeves and make a deal hap­pen, or reach­ing an ami­ca­ble res­o­lu­tion in a com­plex dispute.” > READ THE ARTICLE…

Jul 15, 2014

Lawyers week­ly fea­tures swaab’s pro­mo­tion of one new partner

Swaab’s pro­mo­tion of Annette Wil­son to part­ner has been fea­tured in Lawyers Week­ly. Annette has been with Swaab for over 4 years as a spe­cial coun­sel and is an Accred­it­ed Spe­cial­ist in Fam­i­ly Law by the Law Soci­ety of New South Wales. READ THE ARTICLE…

Jul 14, 2014

Swaab senior asso­ciate Susan Walsh fea­tured in Smart­com­pa­ny on Apple’s trademark

Swaab senior asso­ciate, Susan Walsh, has fea­tured in a Smart­Com­pa­ny arti­cle cov­er­ing Apple’s right to trade­mark its flag­ship store design in Europe. In the arti­cle, Susan high­lights the dif­fer­ences in Aus­trali­a’s trade­mark régime and what hur­dles com­pa­nies have to over­come if they wish to trade­mark a store lay­out in Australia. > Read the article…

Jul 1, 2014

2014 Swaab Promotions

Swaab is pleased to announce that Annette Wil­son has been pro­mot­ed to part­ner and Wendy Con­ce­icao to senior associate. Annette has been with Swaab for over 4 years as a spe­cial coun­sel in the Fam­i­ly Law team. Annette is an Accred­it­ed Spe­cial­ist in Fam­i­ly Law by the Law Soci­ety of New South Wales…

May 12, 2014

Swaab wel­comes Shaw Reynolds team

Swaab and Shaw Reynolds are pleased to announce that as of 1 July 2014 Chris Shaw and the team at Shaw Reynolds will be join­ing Swaab’s Prop­er­ty and Projects Group. For the past 10 years Chris Shaw has been the prin­ci­pal part­ner at Shaw Reynolds has been ser­vic­ing clients in the prop­er­ty indus­try…

Mar 21, 2014

Swaab wel­comes two new graduates

Swaab is delight­ed to announce the arrival of two new grad­u­ates. Eliz­a­beth San­tifort and James Skel­ton will be under­tak­ing Swaab’s grad­u­ate pro­gram, includ­ing three six month rota­tions. They fol­low in the foot­steps of two exist­ing grad­u­ates, Euge Pow­er and Tim Hard­wick who start­ed at Swaab in late 2013 and are…