On 2 November 2015, our Managing Director and Geoffrey McDonald Barrister presented a seminar at the Grace Hotel to which much positive feedback was received. The topics discussed included: Business law - Purchase and Sale of Business The legal pitfalls of purchasing a business The...
Read moreDate posted: 2015-11-23 | Comments(0)
Rights of Employees and Employers regarding Social Media Use The line between our private and public life has blurred once again. Recent decisions of the Fair Work Commission and the Federal Circuit Court of Australia have re-enforced the idea that there is not an 'unfettered freedom of political expression in Australian law' regard...
Read moreDate posted: 2015-09-07 | Comments(0)
When payment arrangements with the Australian Taxation Office will not "defer" corporate debt and restore a company to solvency - Smith v Boné [2015] FCA 319 In this recent "insolvent trading" case the director of Petrolink Pty Ltd ("Petrolink") defended the Liquidator's claim by pointing to the GFC and the payment arrangements he had neg...
Read moreDate posted: 2015-09-07 | Comments(0)
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Health and safety in the workplace has a new regulator – SafeWork NSW As we say goodbye to winter for another year, we also bid farewell to WorkCover NSW ("WorkCover") and the Motor Accidents Authority ("MAA"), which have been replaced under the Insurance and Regulation Reform Package 2015. The package is designed to simplify the old s...
Read moreDate posted: 2015-09-03 | Comments(0)