by aslaumbe | Feb 12, 2024 | News, Strata Matters & Dispute News
Numerous changes to strata title legislation came into effect on 11 December 2023. A recent report found that more than 25% of people may now reside in strata-titled properties such as units and townhouses. So, changes to strata law will affect more and more people...
by aslaumbe | Dec 1, 2023 | Commercial Agreement & Disputes News, Ligitations News, News
As you may be aware, many large businesses employ a standard form contract when engaging with their customers so that the same terms and conditions apply to every transaction involving the supply of goods or services. The purpose of such a contract is to prevent any...
by aslaumbe | Jun 16, 2023 | Business Sale & Purchase News, Conveyancing News, News
On 1 July 2023 a new Register of Foreign Ownership of Australian Assets will come into effect. Its purpose is to record foreign interests in a broad range of Australian assets, to support compliance with Australian foreign investment laws and to increase visibility of...
by aslaumbe | May 12, 2023 | Building Disputes News, Ligitations News, News
Following some well publicised cases of major defects in fairly new high-rise residential apartment buildings in Sydney, the Design and Building Practitioners Act 2020 (NSW) came into effect. It provided that any person who carries out “construction work”...
by aslaumbe | May 12, 2023 | Ligitations News, News
Last year I was approached by a resident of a local retirement village about the management’s refusal of his request to allow him to keep two budgerigars in a cage in his unit for some company. This was on the basis that a Village Rule prohibited the keeping of...
by aslaumbe | Feb 21, 2023 | Commercial Agreement & Disputes News, Ligitations News, News
For some time now under the Australian Consumer Law, where a term of a standard form consumer contract (i.e. one where an individual is acquiring a financial product or service under the contract wholly or predominantly for personal, domestic or household use or...
