By Ben Keenan and Mitchell Teasdale March 2018 saw the Queensland Supreme Court deliver judgments against employers in two major work health and safety proceedings. A jail term in one, and a million dollar damages award in the other underscore the importance of having...
We are pleased to announce that our Property & Projects team, in particular, our Partners Paul O’Dea and Steven Cardell, have been featured in Doyle’s Guide among Queensland’s leading property law lawyers for 2018 in the following categories: Recommended Leading...
In an increasingly interconnected world where “collaboration” is a buzzword, jointly created intellectual property (IP) will become more commonplace. It may sound like a good idea at the time to say everyone involved in the collaborative process gets a piece of the...
Often a land owner or developer will need capital or funding of a development and they will look for an investor to come on board as a joint venture partner to fund the development and share any profits. This was the case in the New South Wales Supreme Court decision...
This article was amended on 24 May 2018. In late 2017 the Queensland parliament passed the Building Industry Fairness (Security of Payments) Act 2017 (Qld) (“BIFA”) which substantially alters Queensland’s security of payment regime. In addition to the introduction of...
Personal guarantees are extremely common. Chances are, one day you’ll be required to sign one –perhaps as a company director, or maybe as a parent when helping your child obtain finance for their first home. Often such guarantees are provided without much thought,...
The Queensland construction industry saw increased regulation in 2017. With the industry focused on the “big ticket” items, being non-conforming building products, the changes to BCIPA and project bank accounts, the expansion of the definition of “influential person”...
After 10 years and numerous Federal Governments Australia has finally caught up with the rest of the world in terms of mandatory data breach notification (the US first introduced mandatory data breach reporting over 15 years ago). To mark the commencement of the laws...
By Brad Vinning and Ruby Mackenzie-Harris THE LEGAL AND REGULATORY ASPECTS OF BLOCKCHAIN AND ICOS After reading Parts 1 and 2 you should have a basic understanding of how blockchain works, and the purpose it serves in recording and facilitating peer-to-peer (P2P)...
We are pleased to announce that our Corporate & Commercial team, in particular, our Partners John Toigo and Brad Vinning, have been featured in Doyle’s Guide among Queensland’s leading corporate and commercial lawyers for 2018 in the following categories:...
By Peter Karcher and Julian Pipolo In an ideal world, all contracts take the form of a single document signed by all parties concerned with little fuss. If a dispute ever arises, the parties could simply revert back to that initial document and figure out what they...
By Tim Ferrier, Consultant and Karissa Andrejic, Associate THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT ANNOUNCES NEW FIRB ASSESSMENTS RULES On 1 February 2018 the Federal Government announced it will be introducing new rules in cases where the Foreign Investment Review Board (“FIRB”)...