by AntcliffeScott | Feb 5, 2021 | Business, Company News, Finance, General, Insolvency, Liquidation
Australia’s largest corporate insolvency reform in 30 years came into effect in January 2021. These reforms aim to replace a rigid insolvency model with a more flexible regime for small businesses that will reduce complexity, time and costs. In our previous article,...
by AntcliffeScott | Sep 6, 2020 | Constitution Section 92, COVID-19, General
The travel restrictions imposed by some of the states and territories of Australia as a consequence of the COVID-19 crisis have provided an insight into life prior to the signing of the Australian Constitution, and with it the establishment of the Commonwealth of...
by AntcliffeScott | Jul 6, 2020 | General, Government
Even while we continue to grapple with COVID-19, the normal business of government, commerce and the law goes on. On 2 June this year, Federal Court Judge Stephen Rares handed down his decision in Brett Cattle v Minister for Agriculture. Background On 30 May 2011...
by AntcliffeScott | Apr 6, 2020 | Business, General, PPSR, Risk Management
Over the past few years, we have written on several occasions in this newsletter about the Personal Property Securities Act 2009 (PPSA), which commenced more than 8 years ago on 30 January 2012. In one of these pieces we asserted that the PPSA “brought about the most...
by AntcliffeScott | Mar 6, 2020 | Business, Business Growth, COVID-19, Force Majeure, General, Risk Management
With the ongoing COVID-19 contagion having an unprecedented and unrelenting impact on trade and commerce, it is clear that we are all currently operating in uncharted territory, both professionally and personally. With the full force of consequences yet to be seen,...
by AntcliffeScott | Feb 6, 2020 | Commercial Property & Land Use, Copyright Law, General, Intellectual Property, Property Law
Many properties on the market these days are advertised with a Development Application (DA) listed alongside the main features of the property. Given the significant time and costs associated with engaging an architect and obtaining an approval for a DA, properties...
