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 | Dec 22, 2022 | Conveyancing News, News
If you are a first home buyer then you should be made aware of a recent announcement by the NSW State Goverment which will apply to properties purchased up to $1.5m from 16 January 2023. As from that date, qualifying purchasers will be able to opt into a scheme to pay...
by aslaumbe | Aug 8, 2022 | News, Wills & Deceased Estates News
In the NSW Supreme Court case of Lim v Lim [2022] NSWSC 454 the Court held that a 89 year old woman’s last will was invalid because she lacked testamentary capacity i.e. the mental ability to make a will and, therefore, did not know or approve the contents of...
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...
