High density needs high standards
We live in a high-rise age. Whether it’s Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane or elsewhere, in CBDs, along transport routes, and in other key suburban hubs the tiled rooves and backyard veggie gardens are being replaced by residential towers. With 90,000 high-rise residential...
Governments throwing caution to the wind
When it comes to convenient technologies, we have a history of rushing in, throwing caution to the wind and being wilfully blind to the problems no matter how clear the warning signs or how severe the consequences. Governments are often reluctant to recognise any...
Buyer Beware: Protecting Yourself Against Supplier Failure
The past couple of months it has seemed as if a well-known business has hit the wall every few days – property developers and construction companies, Appster (a high-profile developer of computer and smart phone apps) going into liquidation, long-established menswear...
Four Ways To Kill Your IP
The intellectual property that makes your brand distinctive are your most valuable and enduring business assets, however they can be easily damaged and de-valued. Here are four ways you may be damaging your IP and what to do about it: Not using it within 3 years Trade...
My Health Record: What Will You Do?:
This month I am getting right out of my comfort zone of commercial law, property and the like to an area that I never get involved with in the course of my day to day practice – but it is one of vital importance to every Australian. (And for my readers outside...
How’s the Serenity?
“It’s the vibe.” It’s a short but most memorable line in the classic Australian movie “The Castle” –suburban lawyer Denis Danuto’s heartfelt plea to the Court, as he argues to save the Kerrigan family home from acquisition for an airport expansion. I thought of this...
It’s just unfair
We’ve discussed how to increase your chances of getting paid and how to follow up outstanding invoices. But what happens if you do everything right, but it still all goes wrong? Unfortunately this scenario does happen. Currently I am helping two ordinary hardworking...
Pay me the money
In a recent blog titled “Show me the money” I discussed the six steps you should take at the start of a working relationship with your customer, to better ensure you get paid promptly for the goods or services you provide. By applying these steps consistently and...
Show me the money
Businesses start for many different reasons, from one person’s desire to create a legacy, to another’s want of a better work/life balance and more. But the one thing all businesses owners and operators have in common is that, ultimately, we are there to make money. No...
New financial year brings big changes to the property market
As of 1st July 2018, a Federal Government plan aimed at sealing a multi-million-dollar revenue hole will make buying new property more complicated. When a developer sells a new property, the price includes GST, so the developer must pay 1/11 to the Australian Tax...
The Changing Legal Landscape in a Digital World
Most sectors of the traditional pre-internet business world have struggled to keep pace with the changes brought about by the globalised digital economy. The law is no exception – around the world legal institutions are trying to catch up, often driven by the...
Do You Know Anything About TMS?
What makes a good trade mark? ‘A trade mark is a sign used, or intended to be used, to distinguish goods or services dealt with or provided in the course of trade by a person from goods or services so dealt with or provided by any other person.’(Ref: s17 Trade Marks...
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