Legislation introduces mandatory data breach notification provisions if serious harm is likely to result from the breach.

New amendments will drastically change how both public bodies and private businesses must deal with personal information.

Recent case reminds landlords that residential premises must be adequately maintained to avoid potential significant losses.

It is very difficult to satisfy the hurdles in s 5(4) of the Workers' Compensation and Injury Management Act 1981 (WA).

In resolving litigation, most disputes are the subject of mediation.

The benefit of seeking directions when in doubt is that the trustee may be protected from beneficiary or creditor claims.

To share parental responsibility for a child, to spend time with that child, both parents need a degree of co-parenting.

Issing a company company statutory demand may allow creditors to recover assets while avoiding costly litigaion.

It is only in exceptional circumstances that a decision to dismiss will be 'harsh' where a serious assault has occurred.

Businesses should engage lawyers to manage all serious workplace incidents, which include any that need to be reported.

The WA Supreme Court has recently refused a plaintiff's application to extend the time to bring a claim against an estate.

Aged care organisations would be well advised to develop policies and procedures to manage dignity of risk issues.

Explanation and discussion about Probate Caveats.

Directors, and those who advise them, have been waiting for these amendments for some time, and with some trepidation.

Given the stresses of the pandemic, health unions claim that this period of Unpaid Pandemic Leave should be paid.

These recent changes to awards are designed to battle the COVID-19 outbreak specifically, ending on 30 June 2020.

The employee claimed unfair dismissal, but it was a clear policy, which was known, understood and deliberately breached.

There has to be some connection between the activity in question and encouragement from the employer to undertake it.

This case turns on its facts, but is useful for guidance provided by His Honour as to what constitutes a question of law.

Allegations of bullying are serious, but there is still a need for procedural fairness in the course of an investigation.