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Swaab announces the pro­mo­tion of Daniel Miller to Associate

The pro­mo­tion recog­nis­es Daniel’s excel­lent legal skills cou­pled with his desire to pro­vide excep­tion­al client ser­vice. As an invalu­able part of our Lit­i­ga­tion team we look for­ward to recog­nis­ing Daniel as he con­tin­ues to devel­op and grow as a senior practitioner.Con­grat­u­la­tions Daniel…

Swaab announces the appoint­ment of Madeleine Urmoneit — Associate

Work­ing along side Julie Briscoe — Part­ner Prop­er­ty, Plan­ning & Projects, Com­mer­cial & Cor­po­rate, Made­line Urmoneit’s appoint­ment recog­nis­es her excel­lent exper­tise and experience.  Wel­come Madeleine.…

Con­grat­u­la­tions to our Prop­er­ty, Plan­ning & Projects (PPP) team for being recog­nised in the Doyles Guide 2021

Mary Digiglio as a Rec­om­mend­ed Leas­ing & Prop­er­ty & Real Estate Lawyer — NSW, 2021 Emma Flem­ing as a Rec­om­mend­ed Town Plan­ning & Devel­op­ment Lawyer — NSW, 2021Tony D’Agosti­no as a Rec­om­mend­ed Prop­er­ty & Real Estate Lawyer — NSW, 2021 Our ded­i­ca­tion pro­fes­sion­als have been select­ed because of their exper­tise and abil­i­ties, focus on client ser­vice and their com­mit­ment to excel­lence. We…

Mary Digiglio recog­nised in Doyles Guide 2021

Con­grat­u­la­tions to the Mary Digiglio recog­nised in Doyles Guide as a Rec­om­mend­ed Real Estate Lawyer — NSW, 2021 and Rec­om­mend­ed Leas­ing Lawyer — NSW, 2021  Rec­om­mend­ed Prop­er­ty & Real Estate Lawyer NSW, 2021 Rec­om­mend­ed Leas­ing Lawyer NSW, 2021 …

Tony D’Agosti­no recog­nised in Doyles Guide 2021

Con­grat­u­la­tions to the Tony D’Agosti­no recog­nised in Doyles Guide as a Rec­om­mend­ed Real Estate Lawyer — NSW, 2021Rec­om­mend­ed Prop­er­ty & Real Estate Lawyer NSW, 2021…

Swaab announces the appoint­ment of Chris­t­ian Marchant — Associate

Work­ing along side Helen Kow­al — Part­ner, Prop­er­ty, Plan­ning & Projects, Chris­tian’s appoint­ment recog­nis­es the increase demand from our clients for his excep­tion­al exper­tise and experience. Wel­come Christian.…

The Fair Work Com­mis­sion Kicks Off Review of Casu­al Terms in Mod­ern Awards

The Fair Work Com­mis­sion has today issued direc­tions pro­gram­ming its approach to review­ing and vary­ing mod­ern awards in light of amend­ments to the pas­sage of the Fair Work Amend­ment (Sup­port­ing Aus­trali­a’s Jobs and Eco­nom­ic Recov­ery) Act 2021. The FWC has until 27 Sep­tem­ber 2021 to con­sid­er whether a ​“rel­e­vant term”…

Fam­i­ly Law | Spouse main­te­nance: 10 fre­quent­ly asked questions

What is spouse maintenance? Spouse main­te­nance is mon­ey that is paid by one par­ty to a mar­riage or de fac­to rela­tion­ship to the oth­er par­ty, to sup­port them finan­cial­ly after sep­a­ra­tion. It can be paid as agreed between the par­ties, oth­er­wise the Fam­i­ly Court can order pay­ment either peri­od­i­cal­ly (such as…

Work­place Health and Safe­ty Com­pli­ance is not about the ​‘Nan­ny State’

It is no sur­prise that some employ­ees, employ­ers and media com­men­ta­tors hold the view that many work­place health and safe­ty mea­sures are large­ly a man­i­fes­ta­tion of the so-called ​‘Nan­ny State’, infan­til­is­ing work­ers and under­min­ing the con­cept of per­son­al respon­si­bil­i­ty. For them, WHS is yet anoth­er bat­tle­ground in the ongo­ing ​‘cul­ture wars’…

Fam­i­ly Law | It’s mine, I got it after we broke up

In fam­i­ly law dis­putes it is a com­mon mis­con­cep­tion that an inher­i­tance or oth­er large sum received after sep­a­ra­tion will not be includ­ed in the prop­er­ty pool to be divid­ed between the parties. The issue has been high­light­ed in many cas­es before the Fam­i­ly Court includ­ing inher­i­tances, lot­tery wins and oth­er ​‘wind­falls’…

Fam­i­ly Law | Top 5 ​‘Did you knows’ about get­ting a divorce

1/ Did you know that you do not actu­al­ly need the con­sent of your for­mer spouse to get a divorce? In New South Wales, you can apply for a divorce togeth­er (with your for­mer spouse) or by your­self (sole appli­ca­tion). There are dif­fer­ent oblig­a­tions in each case par­tic­u­lar­ly with respect to ser­vice so…

Fam­i­ly Law | Rela­tion­ship break­down: how do we sort out maintenance?

Work­ing out how the every­day expens­es will be met is one of the biggest chal­lenges for peo­ple when they sep­a­rate from a rela­tion­ship. Wor­ry­ing about how to man­age short-term finances can result in par­ties try­ing to delay sep­a­ra­tion because one or both par­ties can­not imag­ine how they will be able to…

Manda­to­ry Work­place Vac­ci­na­tion: The Cur­rent State of Play

As the Covid-19 vac­ci­na­tion process slow­ly but sure­ly pro­ceeds, the issue of manda­to­ry work­place Covid-19 vac­ci­na­tion is increas­ing­ly com­ing under consideration.  Two recent Fair Work Com­mis­sion (FWC) unfair dis­missal cas­es, relat­ing to refusals by employ­ees to have flu vac­ci­na­tions, offer some use­ful insights into the approach that will like­ly be…

Michael Byrnes dis­cussed the Deliv­eroo unfair dis­missal case with Scott Hay­wood on the Mon­ey News pro­gram on 2GB on 18 May 2021 (from 6:00):

Michael Byrnes dis­cussed the Deliv­eroo unfair dis­missal case with Scott Hay­wood on the Mon­ey News pro­gram on 2GB on 18 May 2021 (from 6:00):Click here to lis­ten to the podcast.…

Michael Byrnes — Part­ner, dis­cussed the employ­ment law issues relat­ing to Israel Folau’s pos­si­ble return to rug­by league on 4BC with Scott Emer­son on 21 May 2021:

Michael Byrnes — Employ­ment Part­ner, dis­cussed the employ­ment law issues relat­ing to Israel Folau’s pos­si­ble return to rug­by league on 4BC with Scott Emer­son on 21 May 2021:Click here to lis­ten to the podcast.…