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How to interpret insurance policies and make sense of what is included and what isn’t and when to make a claim? Contract and Duty of Good Faith and Duty of Disclosure Firstly, insurance is a...
Skilled Occupation List Updates Last week the Federal Government announced more jobs have been added to the Skilled Occupation List in an attempt to address Australia’s labour shortage. The Medium and Long-Term Strategic Skills List...
Current Process Applications for a partner visa can be done onshore in Australia or offshore. If the applicant is in Australia at the time of lodgement, the applicant may remain in Australia on a bridging...
Welcome back to work everyone, and a happy new year. It’s all too often the case that we all return to work fresh and ready to roll, but realise quickly that very little has changed. ...
Trumped “absolutely magnificent” by Bob Katter, the maiden speech of Queensland senator Fraser Anning has stirred the hearts and minds of Australians on the “problem” of migration. For every problem there is a solution. In...
No this is not an article about sadomasochism (try not to look so disappointed!) but contract law. Legal theorists like to think that a party is free to contract with another party. The common law...
In May this year Catholic Archbishop Philip Wilson became the most senior Catholic official world-wide to be charged with concealing child sexual abuse. Archbishop Wilson was convicted of covering up abuse by Priest Jim Fletcher...
Abortion has historically been an extremely controversial issue. It has hit the headlines again recently across several different continents and for several different reasons. In Europe, Ireland, one of Europe’s most socially conservative countries, held...
We don’t get too many high profile defamation cases in Australia. It’s a difficult area of the law (one of the very few civil areas that still have jury trials for example) that is quite...
The problems with Australia’s family law system are well known and have been reported on extensively. The focus criticism has been the (in some cases extensive) delays experienced by those involved in the system. The...
Both State and Federal governments have a new-found passion for “specialist Tribunals” as opposed to Courts. Talk of such a Tribunal has abounded in discussions around the scandals affecting the financial advisor and banking industries....
Back in 2011 the NSW Government asked the NSW Law Reform Commission to undertake a review of the Crimes (Sentencing Procedure) Act. This is the legislation that sets out what sentences are available for criminal...
