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NSW Con­struc­tion Update

Roberts v Good­win Street Devel­op­ments Pty Ltd [2023] NSW­CA 5 In a recent deci­sion hand­ed down by the NSW Court of Appeal it has been con­firmed that the duty of care pro­vi­sions intro­duced under Part 4 of the Design and Build­ing Prac­ti­tion­ers Act 2020 (NSW) (DBP Act) on 10 June 2020, in par­tic­u­lar a claim…

Michael Byrnes is quot­ed in the arti­cle, ​‘Work­place part­ners ​‘inun­dat­ed’ with huge uptick in work’, pub­lished in Lawyers Week­ly on 15 March 2023

Michael Byrnes is quot­ed in the arti­cle, ​‘Work­place part­ners ​‘inun­dat­ed’ with huge uptick in work’, pub­lished in Lawyers Week­ly on 15 March 2023 To read the full arti­cle click here…

Swaab Con­nect | Feb­ru­ary 2023

Changes to the Fair Work Act: An Overview | Employ­ment Law, Shift­ing the dial on build­ing defects lia­bil­i­ty – a greater risk for com­pa­ny direc­tors and devel­op­ers under recent leg­isla­tive reform | Stra­ta & Con­struc­tion Law, Stra­ta Reme­di­al Update: Emer­gency Reme­di­al Build­ing Works | Stra­ta & Con­struc­tion Law, Legal boss­es should not slide…

Helen Kow­al appeared on ​‘Fri­day LIVE’ with Aman­da Farmer, Founder of Women in Stra­ta from the 2023 Annu­al Con­fer­ence of the Aus­tralian Col­lege of Stra­ta Lawyers in Singapore

Helen Kow­al appeared on ​‘Fri­day LIVE’ with Aman­da Farmer, Founder of Women in Stra­ta & Your Stra­ta Prop­er­ty, from the 2023 Annu­al Con­fer­ence of the Aus­tralian Col­lege of Stra­ta Lawyers in Singapore.  Helen explained the new fact sheet released by NSW Fair Trad­ing this week, clar­i­fy­ing the way in which an own­ers…

Swaab’s own Julie Briscoe and Tour de Cure Grants Com­mit­tee mem­ber is pleased to announce an incred­i­ble fund­ing mile­stone for Tour de Cure

Julie Briscoe — Tour de Cure Grants Com­mit­tee mem­ber is pleased to announce that Since Tour de Cure start­ed in 2007, Tour de Cure has been work­ing hard with its lead­ing research part­ners across Aus­tralia to raise much-need­ed funds for can­cer research. Today, they announce they have reached an incred­i­ble…

Michael Byrnes is quot­ed in the arti­cle, ​“The ​‘wrong approach’ on work­er com­pen­sa­tion should be reject­ed”, pub­lished in Lawyers Week­ly on 22 March 2023

Michael Byrnes is quot­ed in the arti­cle, ​“The ​‘wrong approach’ on work­er com­pen­sa­tion should be reject­ed”, pub­lished in Lawyers Week­ly on 22 March 2023 To read the full arti­cle click here…

Michael Hayter pre­sent­ed to the Asso­ci­a­tion Of Inde­pen­dent Insol­ven­cy Prac­ti­tion­ers on the Melis­sa Cad­dick Admin­is­tra­tion 21 March 2023

At the launch of the Syd­ney Dis­cus­sion Group for the Asso­ci­a­tion Of Inde­pen­dent Insol­ven­cy Prac­ti­tion­ers, Michael Hayter — Lawyer act­ing for the Receivers & Liq­uida­tors in the Melis­sa Cad­dick Admin­is­tra­tion shared insides and facil­i­tat­ed a round table discussion. …

Leukaemia Foun­da­tion

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2023 Swaab’s Annu­al Insol­ven­cy, Financier & Com­mer­cial Drinks

Each year Swaab’s Insol­ven­cy, Financier and Com­mer­cial team hosts an indus­try wide net­work­ing func­tion. The event sees insol­ven­cy prac­ti­tion­ers, accoun­tants, com­mer­cial lenders, busi­ness advi­sors, asset val­uers and bar­ris­ters come togeth­er to enjoy an evening of net­work­ing with like-mind­ed peers, indus­try col­leagues and to make valu­able con­nec­tions. All while enjoy­ing Swaab’s…

Michael Byrnes is quot­ed in the arti­cle ​‘Fed­er­al gov­ern­ment con­sid­ers ban­ning Tik­Tok on pub­lic sec­tor phones’, pub­lished in HRM Online on 4 April 2023

Michael Byrnes is quot­ed in the arti­cle ​‘Fed­er­al gov­ern­ment con­sid­ers ban­ning Tik­Tok on pub­lic sec­tor phones’, pub­lished in HRM Online on 4 April 2023 To read the full arti­cle click here…

Michael Byrnes is quot­ed in the arti­cle NSW Health bureau­crats to attend Voice to par­lia­ment infor­ma­tion ses­sion, pub­lished in The Dai­ly Tele­graph 12 April 2023

Michael Byrnes is quot­ed in the arti­cle NSW Health bureau­crats to attend Voice to Par­lia­ment infor­ma­tion ses­sion, pub­lished in The Dai­ly Tele­graph 12 April 2023 To read the full arti­cle click here…

2023 Mer­i­tas​‘Elite’ Law Firm Network

Cham­bers’ in-depth research teams assess lawyers and law firms across more than 200 juris­dic­tions around the world, pro­vid­ing inde­pen­dent and impar­tial intel­li­gence and mar­ket insight. Its research method­ol­o­gy is unri­valed in accu­ra­cy, depth, and qual­i­ty, deliv­er­ing indis­pens­able data insights based on rank­ings that tru­ly reflect abil­i­ty and talent. “This annu­al recog­ni­tion…

Changes To Shut­down Leave Rules For 78 Mod­ern Awards

The Fair Work Com­mis­sion (‘FWC’) is required to con­duct a review of the mod­ern award process every 4 years under sec­tion 156A of the Fair Work Act 2009 (Cth) (‘FWA’). This time around, it will be amend­ing 78 dif­fer­ent mod­ern awards to include a new ​‘mod­el term’. This ​‘mod­el term’ is intend­ed to…

Jen­nifer Hold

Exper­tiseCon­struc­tionProp­er­tyStra­ta…

Clos­ing The Gen­der Pay Gap

In 2021 the Work­place Gen­der Equal­i­ty Agency (Agency) con­duct­ed a review (Review) of the Work­place Gen­der Equal­i­ty Act 2012 (Act). The report result­ing from the Review was released in March 2022 and con­tained sev­er­al rec­om­men­da­tions with the objec­tive of reduc­ing the gen­der pay gap. The data from 2021 and 2022 showed…