There are penalties for disobeying such orders and the Court is able to make a wide range of interim and final Orders.

Even if one partner is the registered home owner, that partner is not necessarily entitled to remain in the family home.

A PBA is a payment method for contractors, where a project-specific bank account is operated with a trust arrangement.

The Royal Commission was reluctantly agreed to, but has thrown up some startling events in modern Australian banking.

A review of the Local Government Act 1995 (WA) is underway and will certainly consider the issue of council powers.

There has been an increase in the number of criminal prosecutions of WA employers without workers compensation insurance.

These amendments propose to permit access to retained data in national security and serious criminal investigations.

By using social media, purveyors of hate crimes have easy access to a wider and increasingly disenfranchised audience.

Significant reform is needed to keep pace with the regulatory challenges of contemporary telecommunication technologies.

There are growing concerns in the community about privacy breaches involving remotely piloted aircrafts (RPA, or drones).

When collecting employee information, and recording it, businesses must be able to justify it as "reasonably necessary".

Article discusses the gap in laws protecting privacy in Australia, particularly in relation to health. .

Contractors would not survive very long financially, if they did not get paid during the course of the project works.

We discuss prolongation costs in construction.

A quantum meruit claim, when no payment is agreed in the contract, is when a contractor may claim fair value of his work.

Reforms will represent the most substantial changes to WA's security of payment legislation since the CCA first took effect.

The Satterley decision illustrates the growing role of third-party stakeholders in planning processes.

Project Bank Accounts ("PBAs") have been touted as a better way to secure contractors' right to be paid for their work.

It may be time to re-evaluate the importance of insolvency protections for civil and construction contractors in WA.

From targeting suspicious drones, to weaponising their own, police are using unmanned aerial vehicles to target crime.