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
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 | 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...
