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The Full Court has recently determined that a real estate agency, one of its former directors, and a senior employee of a property development company, breached their fiduciary duties to...
The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission has taken waste management company JJ Richards & Sons (JJ Richards) to court for breach of the small business unfair contract laws that came...
On 5 September 2017, the Federal Government's Fair Work Amendment (Protecting Vulnerable Workers) Bill 2017 was passed by the House of Representatives. The Bill will become law following assent, with...
So you’re looking to restructure your business. Maybe your funding has been cut, there’s been a stern word from above, or perhaps you just can’t justify having three people operate...
From 1 September 2017, a ban on excessive card payment surcharges will apply to all Australian businesses. The ban has applied to large businesses since 1 September 2016, but will...
It is now commonplace for large, complex, and distressed companies to engage insolvency practitioners to assess the company and provide a contingency plan for possible future administration in the event...
Under Australian Law, separating or separated de facto couples have substantially the same rights and responsibilities as those of married couples with regard to property settlements, claims for spousal maintenance,...
The term “workplace culture” has become a common catchphrase and is used to praise or demonise organisations (Google is ‘good’, unless you’re an employee who has sent a staff-wide memo...
A 'de facto' relationship is where two people who are not married or related by family, are in a relationship as a couple on a 'genuine domestic basis'. There are...
It is common in Australia for parents or other family members to provide money to a couple, or a member of that couple, during the life of a relationship, particularly...
With expat divorces in Singapore on the rise, there are an increasing number of separating expats who run the risk of falling foul of the law by not being aware...
Late last year, NSW Fair Trading implemented a policy that establishes a discretionary limit of $2 million for the annual income and total assets of incorporated associations registered in NSW....
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