News & Blog

Litigation and Dispute Resolution team senior associate Daniela Ackland was last week named as the new president of The Women’s Insolvency Network Australia (WINA) NSW. WINA, formerly known as the International Women’s Insolvency & Restructuring...

The amount of general damages awarded in sexual harassment cases is rising. Historically, the damages awarded in sexual harassment cases have been fixed at a conservative level and there has been a large disparity between the general damages awarded ...

On 9 March 2017 the NSW Court of Appeal handed down its decision in Sanderson as Liquidator of Sakr Nominees Pty Ltd (in liquidation) v Sakr [2017] NSWCA 38, unanimously allowing the liquidator’s appeal against a decision of Brereton J apply...

Following a series of decisions by the Fair Work Commission with respect to the validity of Notices of Employee Representational Rights (NERR) that employers have issued to employees, the Federal Government has attempted to take step...

The Government’s plan to prevent employees from “double dipping” paid parental leave is set out in both the Fairer Paid Parental Leave Bill 2016 and the Social Services Legislation Amendment (Omnibus Savings and Child Care reform) Bill 2...

Background In August 2015, the Australian Taxation Office (ATO) ruled that Uber drivers must register for Goods and Services Tax (GST) regardless of turnover. Uber commenced a legal challen...

Two recent cases in the NSW Court of Appeal (NSWCA) highlight the circumstances where equity – the court of conscience – will step in to protect injured parties who did not have a contract to rely upon and acted to their detriment in...

We recently issued a brief summary of the Fair Work Commission’s (FWC) 23 February 2017 decision on penalty rates. We now set out further details of the proposed changes for each of the modern awards considered and how they may affec...