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Non-Dis­par­age­ment Claus­es v Free Speech

The recent high-pro­file deci­sion of the Supreme Court of NSW in Net­work Ten Pty Lim­it­ed v van Onse­len [2023] NSWSC 829 pro­vides a rare insight into the scope and prac­ti­cal effect of non-dis­par­age­ment claus­es in deeds of release for employ­ment mat­ters. These claus­es are almost always includ­ed in such deeds, usu­al­ly in…

Women in Part­ner­ship | The Australian’s Legal Part­ner­ship Survey

The Australian’s Legal Part­ner­ship Sur­vey, released on Tues­day, reveals the num­ber of female lawyers is slow­ly creep­ing upwards, with women rep­re­sent­ing 33 per­cent of part­ners (up 2 per­cent on last year), 61 per­cent of grad­u­ates (up 0.1 per­cent), and 29 per­cent of equi­ty part­ners (up 2 per­cent). With 50% of women as…

Michael Hayter is quot­ed in the Dai­ly Tele­graph arti­cle ​‘Fresh bat­tle for fraud­ster Melis­sa Caddick’s $12k shoes’ dat­ed 2/8/23

Michael Hayter, Insol­ven­cy Part­ner and the solic­i­tor act­ing for the receivers, said they were seek­ing access to Ms. Caddick’s sneak­er col­lec­tion, which was being held by her son and Mr. Koletti. “In terms of what is in dis­pute, and I know this is going to sound pet­ty, one of the mat­ters in…

Michael Hayter is quot­ed in the SMH arti­cle ​‘Forg­eries, footwear and frocks: Fight over fraud­ster Melis­sa Caddick’s last assets’

On Wednes­day, Michael Hayter — Insol­ven­cy Part­ner and the solic­i­tor rep­re­sent­ing the receivers, expressed frus­tra­tion over the refusal of her sec­ond hus­band, hair­dress­er Antho­ny Kolet­ti, to hand back some of his wife’s dresses. A col­lec­tion of 30 pairs of high-end sneak­ers col­lect­ed by Caddick’s 17-year-old son is also prov­ing to be…

Michael Byrnes is quot­ed in the arti­cle ​‘Legal impli­ca­tions and lessons from Net­work Ten v van Onse­len’, pub­lished in Lawyers Week­ly on 3 August 2023

Michael Byrnes is quot­ed in the arti­cle ​‘Legal impli­ca­tions and lessons from Net­work Ten v van Onse­len’, pub­lished in Lawyers Week­ly on 3 August 2023. Last month NSW Supreme Court Jus­tice David Ham­mer­schlag found that Peter van Onse­len breached his redun­dan­cy con­tract and the non-dis­par­age­ment clause with­in it. In this arti­cle, Michael…

Michael Hayter appeared on Chan­nel Ten’s News First seg­ment ​‘Melis­sa Cad­dick­’s Final Belong­ings Being Sold’ 3 August 2023

Michael Hayter appeared on Chan­nel Ten’s News First seg­ment ​‘Melis­sa Cad­dick­’s Final Belong­ings Being Sold.’ Melis­sa Cad­dick­’s final belong­ings, includ­ing dress­es and design­er sneak­ers, are being sold to help return some of the mon­ey to her vic­tims. The con-woman dis­ap­peared short­ly after the AFP raid­ed her Dover Heights home in Novem­ber 2020…

Michael Byrnes is quot­ed in the arti­cle, “ ​‘Inevitable’: Employ­ment lawyers warn Indige­nous voice ​‘flash­point’ for work­er dis­putes”, pub­lished in The Aus­tralian on 9 August 2023

Michael Byrnes is quot­ed in the arti­cle, “ ​‘Inevitable’: Employ­ment lawyers warn Indige­nous voice ​‘flash­point’ for work­er dis­putes”, pub­lished in The Aus­tralian on 9 August 2023,  Com­pa­nies such as Qan­tas, Clay­ton Utz, Transur­ban, BHP, Rio Tin­to, NAB, Wool­worths, and Lendlease have pub­licly endorsed the voice and will advo­cate for the Yes cam­paign…

Michael Byrnes appeared on Chan­nel 7 Sun­rise pro­gram to dis­cuss a recent WFH unfair dis­missal case and the employ­ers use of sur­veil­lance technology

Michael Byrnes appeared on Chan­nel 7 Sun­rise pro­gram this morn­ing, with Natal­ie Barr to dis­cuss the recent­ly pub­lished unfair dis­missal case in which an employ­ee brought a claim against her employ­er after she was ter­mi­nat­ed for not work­ing (when she was sched­uled to work from home). Michael dis­cuss­es the legal rights of…

Michael Byrnes presented on 'Tackling the Tough HR Issues' at Clubs Australia 2023 WR&HR Conference

Michael’s pre­sen­ta­tion cov­ered a range of top­ics affect­ing not just Clubs through­out Aus­tralia, includ­ing Cor­po­rate Posi­tions on Top­i­cal Issues v Employ­ee Free­dom of Speech, Gen­der Iden­ti­ty Issues, and Pro­fes­sion­al Life v Pri­vate Life …

Nick Dale appeared in the Fed­er­al Court on 11 August 2023 act­ing for Koshib Invest­ment Pty Ltd which is suing Slater & Gor­don Ltd

In the case, Koshib Invest­ment Pty Ltd atf Koshib Fund v Slater & Gor­don, Koshib Invest­ment, a self-man­aged super­an­nu­a­tion fund is suing Slater & Gor­don Ltd over the com­pul­so­ry acqui­si­tion of its shares in Slater & Gor­don Ltd by an enti­ty asso­ci­at­ed with Alle­gro Funds. At a con­test­ed case man­age­ment hear­ing before Fed­er­al Court Jus­tice John Hal­ley…

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