AFCA has discretion to make a wide range of determinations and remedies and its decisions are binding on financial firms.

Examines recent cases in NSW & explains the lessons they provide about serious harm in defamation law.

What is a personal brand and how does one build it?

NSW public sector agencies must now be more proactive about their cybersecurity and data-handling practices.

Numerous judgments in the NSW Land and Environment Court have considered the scope of non-discretionary development standards under the State Environmental Planning Policy (Housing) 2021 (Housing SEPP).

Councils should be aware of these considerations when negotiating a lease or licence with a telecommunications carrier.

What is a caveat? Who can lodge it? What is a constructive trust? Key features, common scenarius, case law & takeaways.

Update following the Federal Government's review of the Modern Slavery Act 2018 (Cth) (Act).

Article discusses the new Modern Slavery Act 2, when it comes into effect, who it applies to and what you need to do etc.

Recent HC decision clarified who is considered a company officer (i.e. not just directors) & what their legal obligations are.

Article provides both the answer and the challenge of meeting compliance in a COVID-19 environment

NSW's 2025 WP Act broadens victimisation protections & increases employer accountability by considering both conscious & unconscious decision-making factors.

Office relations happen, so employers and employees should work together to avoid conflicts, poor morale and fall out.

Whether medicinal cannabis is reasonably necessary as a result of injury will depend on the facts & evidence presented.

Summarises key Environmental, Social & Governance updates impacting government agencies.

Many parents worry about what will happen to their hard-earned assets after they die. Some worry, in particular, that one of their children may challenge their will and unravel the careful plans they have made. One approach (but fairly extreme strategy), is to restructure assets during their lifetime, transferring property or control of family trusts to a trusted child so that there is less in the estate for anyone to fight over. But can those lifetime transfers themselves be unwound later, on the basis that the parent was taken advantage of?

What does the law say about Genuine Attempts to acquire land. How should councils define a Genuine Attempt?

Government decision making is a balance of public and private interest, generally in the context of a legal framework.

NSW local councils are obliged to review their supply chains and to undertake a form of modern slavery reporting.

Courts are able to penalise businesses who unjustifiably threaten another business with legal action for IP infringement.