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Helen Kow­al to present on 25 March 2021 for Legal­wise | Design and Build­ing Prac­ti­tion­ers Act 2020: New Duties and Penal­ties for Architects

Helen Kow­al shares an out­line of the new duties and penal­ties for archi­tects under the new Design and Build­ing Prac­ti­tion­ers Act 2020. She will be delv­ing fur­ther into this top­ic at the upcom­ing Law for Archi­tects: Cru­cial Issues in Com­pli­ance and Con­tracts sem­i­nar on Thurs­day 25 March. Read out­line here…

Casu­al Clar­i­fi­ca­tion Emerges From Omnibus Breakdown

Despite the fact the major­i­ty of indus­tri­al reforms pro­posed by the Gov­ern­ment in its Fair Work Amend­ment (Sup­port­ing Australia’s Jobs and Eco­nom­ic Recov­ery) Bill 2020 (“Bill”) have been stymied by the Sen­ate employ­ers should wel­come the fact long stand­ing ambi­gu­i­ty sur­round­ing the test for deter­min­ing who a casu­al employ­ee is, and…

Fam­i­ly Law | What the Fam­i­ly Court merg­er means for sep­a­rat­ing couples

Fam­i­lies going through sep­a­ra­tion may be aware of recent news announce­ments about changes to the Fam­i­ly Court sys­tem and the like­ly impact this will have on par­ents and children. The Fam­i­ly Court of Aus­tralia and the Fed­er­al Cir­cuit Court of Aus­tralia have issued a joint state­ment about the merg­er of the two…

Press Release | New Women’s Lead­er­ship Congress

As you may know, Swaab is a mem­ber of Mer­i­tas, the pre­mier glob­al net­work of inde­pen­dent law firms. Our affil­i­a­tion enables our clients to do busi­ness any­where in the world. Mem­ber­ship in Mer­i­tas also pro­vides our firm with tools to enhance our prac­tice and grow. The Mer­i­tas Women’s Lead­er­ship Con­gress fur­thers gen­der equi­ty…

Fam­i­ly Law | A word about gifts in your fam­i­ly law prop­er­ty settlement

Wed­dings, engage­ments, birth­days, Christ­mas … at some stage most of us will make a gen­er­ous gift to a loved one. It could be cash for a house deposit, a car, a love­ly piece of jew­ellery or a valu­able fam­i­ly heirloom. This arti­cle looks at how the Fam­i­ly Court and Fed­er­al Cir­cuit Court have treat­ed dif­fer­ent kinds of…

The Employ­ment Real­i­ty of TV Fame

Real­i­ty tele­vi­sion shows thrive on intrigue and dra­ma. A key com­po­nent of suc­cess­ful real­i­ty TV shows is the con­tes­tant view­ers love to hate; the vil­lain who, for a brief peri­od of time, becomes Pub­lic Ene­my No. 1. Of course, being cast in that light on a TV show can dam­age the rep­u­ta­tion of…

Michael Byrnes quot­ed in The Aus­tralian arti­cle | Vic­to­ri­an quar­an­tine staff refuse vaccine

Michael Byrnes — Part­ner, Employ­ment & Work­place Health and Safe­ty is quot­ed in The Aus­tralian arti­cle, Vic­to­ri­an quar­an­tine staff refuse vaccine. Read full arti­cle here…

Michael Byrnes is quot­ed in Lawyers Week­ly | Lawyers should think twice before appear­ing on real­i­ty TV

While it might seem like a good, fun and maybe even enrich­ing expe­ri­ence to go on the real­i­ty TV show jour­ney, legal employ­ees need to seri­ous­ly con­sid­er their pro­fes­sion­al stand­ing and employ­ment before agree­ing to be a con­tes­tant on such a show, writes Michael Byrnes.Refer the full arti­cle here…

Michael Byrnes dis­cussed the legal issues relat­ed to employ­ees appear­ing on real­i­ty TV shows with John Stan­ley on 2GB on 11 April 2021 (from 42:00): 

Michael Byrnes dis­cussed the legal issues relat­ed to employ­ees appear­ing on real­i­ty TV shows with John Stan­ley on 2GB on 11 April 2021 (from 42:00): Click here to lis­ten to the podcast.…

Fam­i­ly Law | What will the Court do if we can’t agree about our child’s religion?

Typ­i­cal­ly, Par­ent­ing Orders cov­er such mat­ters as where the child will live; when they will spend time with the oth­er par­ent and which school they will attend. And if reli­gion is an impor­tant issue for par­ents, and the child is aged under 18 years, the Court has the pow­er to make…

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Fed­er­al Gov­ern­ment responds to AHRC Respect@Work Report

The Fed­er­al Gov­ern­ment has respond­ed to the Respect@Work Report (the Report) which was pre­sent­ed to the Gov­ern­ment by the Sex Dis­crim­i­na­tion Com­mis­sion­er, Kate Jenk­ins, in March last year as part of the Aus­tralian Human Rights Com­mis­sion’s (AHRC) land­mark Nation­al Inquiry into Sex­u­al Harass­ment in Aus­tralian Work­places. Broad­ly, the AHRC made…

Emma Flem­ing recog­nised in Doyles Guide 2021

Con­grat­u­la­tions to the Emma Flem­ing recog­nised in Doyles Guide as a Rec­om­mend­ed Town Plan­ning & Devel­op­ment Lawyer NSW, 2021 Rec­om­mend­ed Town Plan­ning & Devel­op­ment Lawyer NSW, 2021…

Fam­i­ly Law | I want to relo­cate with my child — can I go?

Fol­low­ing sep­a­ra­tion, one of the par­ties may to want to move to anoth­er city or inter­state. Some­times this is trig­gered by an offer of employ­ment; some­times it is a desire to return to the par­en­t’s own fam­i­ly, and at oth­er times it might be just to get away from the old…