It’s almost time: Amend­ments to the Build­ing and Con­struc­tion Indus­try Secu­ri­ty of Pay­ment Act 1999 (NSW) to com­mence on 21 Octo­ber 2019

Sep 10, 2019

The Build­ing and Con­struc­tion Indus­try Secu­ri­ty of Pay­ment Act 1999 (NSW) (the Act) is about to under­go some changes. Those…
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Secu­ri­ty for costs and non-res­i­dent plaintiffs

Sep 3, 2019

What is secu­ri­ty for costs? It is a fact of life that plain­tiffs and defen­dants in legal pro­ceed­ings rep­re­sent­ed by lawyers will…
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Cor­po­ra­tions and defamation

Aug 6, 2019

Sev­er­al high-pro­file Aus­tralians have become embroiled in defama­tion cas­es in recent months.  A pub­li­ca­tion about a per­son com­mu­ni­cat­ed to a third par­ty is…
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You got­ta have faith: good faith and deter­mi­na­tions under the SOP Act

Mar 12, 2019

Build­ing and Con­struc­tion Indus­try Secu­ri­ty of Pay­ments Act 1999 (NSW) The Build­ing and Con­struc­tion Indus­try Secu­ri­ty of Pay­ments Act 199…
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Home own­ers: what to do about defects

Mar 11, 2019

It seems a straight­for­ward arrange­ment, a builder is con­tract­ed to build a res­i­den­tial build­ing. They build it and hand it over to its…
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You say toma­to, I say tom­ah­to: The bat­tle of the forms and build­ing contracts

Dec 10, 2018

Intro­duc­tion In the recent deci­sion of Stepanos­ki v Aslan [2018] NSWSC 1160, the New South Wales Court of Appeal had to…
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Cross all t’s, dot all i’s: Per­son­al guar­an­tees gone wrong

Nov 27, 2018

Intro­duc­tion There are occa­sions, espe­cial­ly for small to medi­um size enter­pris­es, where the com­pa­ny’s direc­tor or direc­tors have to pro­vide…
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Appeals: a use­ful lesson

Nov 27, 2018

The deci­sion of PND Civ­il Group Pty Ltd v Bas­tow Civ­il Con­struc­tions Pty Ltd [2017] NSW­CA 159 high­lights the dif­fi­cul­ty of…
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Use it or lose it; a recent case on the law of adverse possession

Nov 12, 2018

In New South Wales law it is pos­si­ble for you to become the own­er of land by ​‘adverse pos­ses­sion’. Adverse…
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Til Debt Do Us Part: The effec­tive use and pit­falls of statu­to­ry demands

Nov 12, 2018

Intro­duc­tion A cred­i­tor who is claim­ing a debt from a com­pa­ny will often want to employ the quick­est and cheap­est method of…
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