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Swaab announced as a final­ist in Lawyers Week­ly Aus­tralian Law Awards 2019

This award recog­nis­es the law firms and legal depart­ments that have demon­strat­ed a com­mit­ment to their work­force over 17 – 18 finan­cial year. Win­ners will be announced on Fri­day, 9 August 2019 at The Star Sydney.…

NSW con­struc­tion indus­try — an expert’s per­spec­tive (part 4 of 6)

Inter­view with Steven Nakhla – SJN Build­ing Consultants Over the com­ing weeks, I will be releas­ing a six part arti­cle series. The arti­cles will doc­u­ment my dis­cus­sions with build­ing con­sul­tants who are in the know when it comes to the cur­rent state of the NSW con­struc­tion indus­try and the high per­cent­age of…

The Cur­rent State of Play in the Israel Folau Case

What pro­ceed­ings has Israel Folau initiated? It has been wide­ly report­ed that Israel Folau has com­menced pro­ceed­ings with the Fair Work Com­mis­sion (FWC) alleg­ing a breach of sec­tion 772 of the Fair Work Act (Act) for unlaw­ful ter­mi­na­tion of his employ­ment with Rug­by Aus­tralia (RA) on the grounds of reli­gion. Unlike court…

Small and large pro­pri­etary com­pa­nies redefined

From 1 July 2019, changes to the def­i­n­i­tion of​‘small’ and​‘large’ pro­pri­etary com­pa­nies will affect the report­ing oblig­a­tions of small and medi­um sized enter­pris­es. Asso­ciate, Bill Lo clar­i­fies what it means for your company. Overview Under the pre­vi­ous régime estab­lished by the Cor­po­ra­tions Act 2001 (Cth), the thresh­olds for ​‘large’ and ​‘small’ pro­pri­etary…

How are pre-rela­tion­ship assets treat­ed in a prop­er­ty set­tle­ment? Are they includ­ed or excluded?

After sep­a­ra­tion the par­ties to a mar­riage or a defac­to rela­tion­ship are enti­tled to seek a divi­sion of assets of the rela­tion­ship. The assets of the rela­tion­ship include all assets held joint­ly or indi­vid­u­al­ly whether they were acquired pri­or, dur­ing or after the rela­tion­ship. It does not mat­ter which part­ner paid for the…

Vol­un­tary assist­ed dying laws com­mence in Victoria

In Novem­ber 2017, after sig­nif­i­cant com­mu­ni­ty and par­lia­men­tary debate, Vic­to­ria became the first state in Aus­tralia to law­ful­ly allow ter­mi­nal­ly ill peo­ple to vol­un­tar­i­ly end their lives. The Vol­un­tary Assist­ed Dying Act (the Act) came into oper­a­tion on 19 June 2019 with the aim of pro­vid­ing for and reg­u­lat­ing access…

Bal­anc­ing costs and claims in fam­i­ly pro­vi­sion applications

Costs are an impor­tant con­sid­er­a­tion in all legal pro­ceed­ings. Deceased estate lit­i­ga­tion, how­ev­er, often involves lit­i­gants with mod­est means, and the asso­ci­at­ed finan­cial impli­ca­tions can there­fore be vast­ly dif­fer­ent to that of com­mer­cial dis­putes. Indeed, where a claim is made upon a small or mod­er­ate­ly sized estate, it may become more dif­fi­cult…

Work­place Sur­veil­lance Act 2005 (NSW) Admis­si­bil­i­ty of evi­dence unlaw­ful­ly obtained- lat­est developments

When it comes to the ques­tion of work­place sur­veil­lance, there are some employ­ers who are not aware of the impli­ca­tions of applic­a­ble work­place sur­veil­lance leg­is­la­tion, and who dis­cov­er its sig­nif­i­cance only when a chal­lenge is made to evi­dence secured through work­place sur­veil­lance activ­i­ties. In NSW, it is the require­ments of the…

A Prac­ti­cal Guide to IPO’s, RTO’s & ICO’s 2019

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A prac­ti­cal guide to com­pa­ny sec­re­tar­i­al oblig­a­tions 2019

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A prac­ti­cal guide to IPO’s, RTO’s & ICO’s 2019

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A prac­ti­cal guide to buy­ing and sell­ing a busi­ness 2019

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A prac­ti­cal guide to cor­po­rate insol­ven­cy 2019

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Ter­mi­na­tion of employ­ment by SMS fails the fair­ness text

Tex­ting Times for Employers In two recent unfair dis­missal deci­sions, the Fair Work Com­mis­sion (FWC) has con­demned the prac­tice of ter­mi­nat­ing employ­ment by text message.  In the deci­sion of Kurt Wal­lace v AFS Secu­ri­ty 24 7 Pty Ltd (U2019/1622), Com­mis­sion­er Cam­bridge con­sid­ered the sub­mis­sion by the employ­er in respect of a ter­mi­na­tion by text, which was…

Medi­ate, col­lab­o­rate or lit­i­gate — resolv­ing your Fam­i­ly Law matter

There are a num­ber of ways in which you can resolve your finan­cial and par­ent­ing issues after a rela­tion­ship breakdown.  The first and least expen­sive way to resolve these issues is to dis­cuss them with your part­ner and attempt to come to an agreement.  You should obtain legal advice before attempt­ing to resolve the…