by aslaumbe | Mar 6, 2019 | Articles, Building Dispute Articles, Commercial Agreement & Dispute Articles, Debt Recovery Articles, Litigation Articles
How to Resolve a Civil Dispute Without Going to Court The vast majority of civil disputes are settled without a Court or Tribunal having to make a decision. It is obviously preferable to avoid the time, expense and stress of protracted litigation so how is this best...
by aslaumbe | Jan 10, 2019 | Articles, Commercial Agreement & Dispute Articles, Debt Recovery Articles, Litigation Articles
Lending Money To People You Know Often people seek my assistance after lending money to someone they know and being unable to recover the money. Typically, the borrower is desperate, needs the money urgently and promises to pay it back “straight away”....
by aslaumbe | Jan 10, 2019 | Articles, Commercial Agreement & Dispute Articles, Conveyancing Articles, Debt Recovery Articles, Lease Articles, Litigation Articles
What Happens If You Break A Lease Early? People sometimes come to me when they are a tenant under a commercial or retail Lease and have decided to leave early for for whatever reason. Perhaps they cannot afford the rent or some other premises might better suit their...
by aslaumbe | May 16, 2018 | Articles, Business Sale & Purchase Articles, Commercial Agreement & Dispute Articles, Debt Recovery Articles, Litigation Articles
Director Liability For Company Trading While Insolvent Many people operate their business by using a company as the trading entity so that they cannot become personally liable for the debts of the business since a company is a separate legal entity. However,...
by aslaumbe | Dec 8, 2017 | Business Sale & Purchase Articles, Commercial Agreement & Dispute Articles, Conveyancing News, Leases News, Ligitations News, News
Unfair Contract Terms in a Business to Business Contract In a recent Federal Court case, Australian Competition and Consumer Commission v J J Richards & Sons Pty Ltd [2017] FCA 1224, the Federal Court found that a number of terms in a standard form contract...
by aslaumbe | May 31, 2017 | Articles, Business Sale & Purchase Articles, Commercial Agreement & Dispute Articles, Conveyancing Articles, Lease Articles
Surrender of Retail and Commercial Leases When a landlord and a tenant both agree to terminate a lease before its expiry date this is called a surrender of Lease. A lease creates an interest in land in favour of the tenant and constitutes a contract between the...
