News & Blog
Legal perspectives from our expert lawyers
Legal perspectives from our expert lawyers
Recently, Land and Property Information (LPI) listed the Land Sales Act 1964 (the Act) on its agenda for repeal, claiming that instalment contracts are so rarely used that the Act represents a regulatory bur...
Earlier this month, the High Court, in its judgement in Badenach v Calvert [2016] HCA 18, clarified the scope of duty of care which a solicitor owes towards an intended beneficiary of his client’s will. Facts
Sydney, 30 May 2016: McCabes hosted a lunchtime seminar today with its pro bono partner, the NSW Environmental Defenders Office (EDO), in respect of the NSW Government’s proposed biodiversity legislative and policy package. This leg...
A recent New South Wales Court of Appeal decision highlights the importance of the wording of an employer’s contractual power to summarily dismiss an employee, and of the employer following a rational decision-making process in exercising such a powe...
By 2020, it is estimated that over half the population of NSW will either live or work in strata buildings. In consideration of this trend, the NSW government has introduced extensive (more than 90) reforms to the current strata laws. The new legis...
In 2014, NSW farmer Ian Turnbull shot and killed an Office of Environment and Heritage compliance officer over a land clearing dispute. This tragedy represents a culmination of building tensions between the NSW Government and commercial landowners, w...
In October last year, the Federal Government introduced a suite of reforms to the Australian Securities and Investment Commissions Act 2001 and Schedule 2 to the Competition and Consumer Act 2010 relating to the legality of ‘unfair ...
In 2004, the commonwealth legislature introduced Part 9.4AA into the Corporations Act 2001 (Cth) (the Act). This part empowers the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) to...
By its very nature, capitalism epitomises struggle. Just as the God of Norse mythology, Odin, would reward a fallen warrior’s struggle with a seat in Valhalla, capitalism rewards those who are victorious in the struggle for wealth creation. In the ...