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President of the United States, Donald Trump, fired his Secretary of State, Rex Tillerson, by tweet. It has been reported that Mr Tillerson learned his fate via the social media platform, which restricts messages to 280 characters or less. Althoug...
A brief look at decisions involving termination of employment for conduct involving social media reveals that employers often take swift disciplinary action following what they consider to be inappropriate conduct on social media by an employee. Howe...
A recent decision of the Full Bench of the Fair Work Commission means employers can no longer rely on maximum term contracts as absolute protection from unfair dismissal claims. The Full Bench of the Fair Work Commission has handed down a decision t...
Insights from legal professionals and company regulators suggest that company directors should consider and respond to the risks posed by climate change as part of their duty to act with care, skill and diligence. The recent proceedings com...
In Part 1 of this two-part series, we looked at how you can be personally liable as a director for your company’s breach of taxation laws, company laws, and workplace laws. We also considered the ways in which directors may be held accessorily liable...
The interlocutory decision referred to below is an important reminder to all practitioners that when an expert witness claims to require access to certain documents to complete his or her report this should not necessarily be taken as gospel, and the...
The obligation to act with “good faith and reasonableness” is a relatively modern, and continually evolving, area of contract law. This principle recently received some further consideration from the Federal Court of Australia in a legal battle conce...
Navigating the array of laws that impact on every facet of your company’s business can be a minefield. This two part series has a focus on some of the statutes that can impact upon you and your company, and ways to limit your personal exposure to lia...
An underappreciated fact when it comes to estate planning is that the monies held in a superannuation fund do not automatically form part of a person’s estate. Whilst in practice this can be an academic point for many executors managing an estate, if...