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Press Release | ANZ Mer­i­tas Well­ness Sur­vey 2019

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BREAK­ING | ANZ Mer­i­tas Well­ness Sur­vey 2019

MEDIA RELEASE JULY 2019 Aus­tralian & New Zealand Mer­i­tas Well­ness Sur­vey 2019 The well­be­ing of every­one work­ing in the legal sec­tor is a sub­ject being exam­ined world­wide. This includes the pio­neer­ing work done in 2009 by the Brain and Mind Insti­tute in Aus­tralia for the Tris­tan Jep­son Memo­r­i­al Foun­da­tion (now called The Minds…

Con­struc­tion

Our spe­cialised con­struc­tion team is focused on pro­vid­ing tar­get­ed advice spe­cif­ic to our clien­t’s project needs, han­dling mat­ters across front and back end con­struc­tion in new devel­op­ments, includ­ing devel­op­ment of hous­ing estates and reme­di­al build­ing projects.Pri­or to project commencementUnder­stand­ing your project is a vital step in the prepa­ra­tion of con­tract doc­u­men­ta­tion to…

What does a No Deal Brex­it mean for your trade marks?

Recent polit­i­cal changes in the Unit­ed King­dom have raised the prospect of a ​‘no deal’ Brex­it as a seri­ous pos­si­bil­i­ty. It is impor­tant to empha­sise that even in this sit­u­a­tion, there is like­ly to be an order­ly tran­si­tion of trade mark and oth­er intel­lec­tu­al prop­er­ty rights between the EU and the…

Cor­po­ra­tions and defamation

Sev­er­al high-pro­file Aus­tralians have become embroiled in defama­tion cas­es in recent months.  A pub­li­ca­tion about a per­son com­mu­ni­cat­ed to a third par­ty is defam­a­to­ry if an ordi­nary rea­son­able per­son would think it tends to: injure that per­son­’s rep­u­ta­tion by dis­parag­ing them;cause oth­ers to shun or avoid them;sub­ject them to hatred, ridicule or contempt. Can a com­pa­ny sue for defamation? What…

New lawyer joins our Lit­i­ga­tion team

Alexan­dra will be work­ing along­side Part­ner Marc Bad­dams and the lit­i­ga­tion team bring­ing over 10 years of expe­ri­ence in com­mer­cial dis­pute res­o­lu­tion and litigation.  Alexan­dra prac­tices pre­dom­i­nant­ly in the areas of com­mer­cial dis­pute res­o­lu­tion and lit­i­ga­tion, insol­ven­cy and com­mer­cial advice, has a broad range of expe­ri­ence in act­ing for and against major Banks…

Keep­ing the High Court deci­sion in Com­care v Baner­ji in perspective

The High Court deci­sion in Com­care v Baner­ji [2019] HCA 23, which relates to tweets by a Com­mon­wealth pub­lic ser­vant (tweet­ed under the han­dle @LaLegale) about gov­ern­ment poli­cies, has been hand­ed down.  The court held that var­i­ous sec­tions of the Pub­lic Ser­vice Act 1999 (Cth) (Act), relat­ing to the Aus­tralian Pub­lic Ser­vice (APS)…

Swaab Con­nect | August 2019

This month we are delight­ed to wel­come Alexan­dra Streltso­va to the firm’s lit­i­ga­tion team, Part­ner Eric Ziehlke explains why recent polit­i­cal changes in the Unit­ed King­dom have raised the prospect of a​‘no deal’ Brex­it as a seri­ous pos­si­bil­i­ty, Part­ner Helen Kow­al inter­views Allan Har­ri­man OAM for the third instal­ment of the…

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2019 Lawyers Week­ly Aus­tralian Law Awards

The 19th annu­al Aus­tralian Law Awards is the pin­na­cle awards pro­gram for the nation’s legal pro­fes­sion, recog­nis­ing the out­stand­ing work being done across major legal prac­tice areas and whilst we did not win the award for Well­ness Ini­tia­tive of the Year, we were absolute­ly thrilled to have been nom­i­nat­ed.Con­grat­u­la­tions to…

Wellness Program Q&A - Australasian Law Management Law Journal with Mary Digiglio - 3 July 2019

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Wellness program Q&A featured in the Australian Law Management Journal

In the Q&A fea­tured in the Aus­tralian Law Man­age­ment Jour­nal, Mary Digiglio, man­ag­ing part­ner of Swaab and a board mem­ber of the Minds Count Foun­da­tion, explains why well­ness pro­grams can only be suc­cess­ful if they are incor­po­rat­ed as part of the cul­ture of the practice…

Deeds of Release and their effec­tive­ness – update 2019

Intro­duc­tion Releas­es and in par­tic­u­lar, deeds of release, play a sig­nif­i­cant role in resolv­ing dis­putes across a wide range of issues and at dif­fer­ent stages in their evo­lu­tion. It is a rea­son­able expec­ta­tion to have, as the ben­e­fi­cia­ry of a release, that it will pro­vide cer­tain­ty going for­ward and that the per­son pro­vid­ing the…