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A common asset protection strategy used by those who engage in high-risk business or provide professional services is to put the matrimonial home in their spouse's name to protect it from the claims of creditors in context of bankruptcy. This practic...
Last week, the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) launched civil proceedings in the Federal Court of Australia against retail giant Harvey Norman Holdings Ltd (Harvey Norman) and its credit-card ...
The recent case of In the matter of ACN 152 546 453 Pty Ltd (in liq) [2022] NSWSC 974 demonstrates the circumstances in which a person may be regarded as a 'de facto director' and therefore face personal liability for breaching duties owed a...
Here are our key tips and tricks for the festive season that all marketing teams, business development managers and office social committees should have front of mind when organising festive season functions.
In the case of Anchorage Capital Master Offshore Ltd v Sparkes (No 3); Bank of Communications Co Ltd v Sparkes (No 2) [2021] NSWSC 1025, the Plaintiffs sought to argue that a large publicly listed company and t...
A claimant suffers psychological injury when he is threatened by a would be thief of his motor bike. Whether the medical assessor was justified in concluding that this was not a motor accident was answered by the Supreme Court in Bell v Allianz Insur...
In the recent case of In the matter of Jana Pty Ltd [2022] NSWSC 112, the Supreme Court of New South Wales set aside a statutory demand issued for a debt arising out of a deed drafted with ambiguous and conflicting clauses. Backgrou...
In June 2021, we published an article on the decision at first instance of Darke J in Dyco Hotels Pty Ltd v Laundy Hotels (Quarry) Pty Ltd [2021] NSWSC 504. A link to the article appears
The Australian Tax Office (ATO) has resumed its collection of overdue tax payments, including serving directors of companies with a Director Penalty Notice (DPN). With the COVID-19 pandemic subsiding, laws governing the DPN regime have been strengthe...