by aslaumbe | May 24, 2024 | Commercial Agreement & Disputes News, Ligitations News, News
I regularly receive phone calls from people asking me to witness their signature. When I enquire further about what they are signing, usually they clarify it is just some loan documentation from a lender and it’s only about 100 to 150 pages! They then admit that...
by aslaumbe | Dec 1, 2023 | Commercial Agreement & Disputes News, Ligitations News, News
Many large businesses use a standard form contract when dealing with customers. This ensures the same terms and conditions apply to every transaction involving the supply of goods or services. The purpose is to prevent negotiations between parties, saving the business...
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...
by aslaumbe | Mar 21, 2022 | Contesting an Unfair Will News, Ligitations News, News, Wills & Deceased Estates News
A common situation is one where a parent with children re-marries another parent with their own children creating a blended family. It is not then unusual for each parent to enter into an agreement to make mutual wills which are in reciprocal terms leaving their...
