Reform of Aus­tralian Con­tract Law

Apr 18, 2012

On 22 March 2012 the Com­mon­wealth Attor­ney-Gen­er­al, Nico­la Rox­on, released a dis­cus­sion paper which could lead to wide-rang­ing review and reform…
Read more

A time­ly reminder about cal­cu­lat­ing com­pen­sa­tion claims in IP infringe­ment cases

Apr 18, 2012

In brief Recent­ly, the Full Court of the Fed­er­al Court of Aus­tralia hand­ed down its deci­sion in Fac­ton Ltd v Rifai…
Read more

Acci­dents hap­pen. the impor­tance of appoint­ing your Endur­ing Guardian and Endur­ing Pow­er of Attorney

Apr 18, 2012

In Brief Gen­er­al­ly we pre­fer to make our own deci­sions con­cern­ing our per­son­al lives and finances. But what hap­pens if we…
Read more

The new world of OH&S - is there any substantial difference?

Apr 18, 2012

In Brief The Work Health and Safe­ty Act 2011 (NSW) (‘WHS Act’) came into effect on 1 Jan­u­ary 2012 and has brought…
Read more

Ter­mi­nat­ing a lease — what not to do

Apr 18, 2012

In Brief A land­lord com­mu­ni­cat­ing to a ten­ant a ter­mi­na­tion of a lease must be clear. This is evi­dent from the deci­sion in Dee-Tech Pty…
Read more

Cost­ly con­se­quences of not tak­ing Gen­uine Steps

Apr 18, 2012

In Brief A recent deci­sion of the Fed­er­al Court of Aus­tralia sig­nals the impor­tance of par­ties to dis­putes and their legal rep­re­sen­ta­tives…
Read more

New code for pri­vate equi­ty funds

Apr 2, 2012

In Brief On 7 Sep­tem­ber 2011, the Aus­tralian Pri­vate Equi­ty and Ven­ture Cap­i­tal Asso­ci­a­tion (AVCAL) released a new cor­po­rate gov­er­nance code for the…
Read more

New retail leas­ing dis­clo­sure oblig­a­tions now in force oth­er amend­ments proposed 

Apr 2, 2012

In brief – New land­lord dis­clo­sure state­ments and pro­posed amend­ments to retail leas­ing laws Retail land­lords now have new dis­clo­sure oblig­a­tions…
Read more

Insol­vent trad­ing…? Don’t go there.

Mar 15, 2012

Direc­tor’s duty to avoid insol­vent trading Sec­tion 588G of the Cor­po­ra­tions Act 2001 impos­es lia­bil­i­ty on a com­pa­ny director: (a) who allows a com­pa­ny…
Read more

Cash-flow prob­lems no excuse for under­pay­ment of work­ers, mag­is­trate rules

Mar 9, 2012

In these dif­fi­cult eco­nom­ic times it is com­mon for small busi­ness­es to expe­ri­ence liq­uid­i­ty and cash-flow prob­lems. Under these sit­u­a­tions…
Read more