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...
by aslaumbe | Feb 16, 2022 | Ligitations News, News
Here is a stark warning to anyone, including businesses, who operates a social media platform and allows third parties to post comments. You or your business can be held liable for another person’s defamatory comments even if you are unaware of them. In the...