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• Compensation for rescuers: Aftermath of accident causes mental harm
• Self-managed super: New law removes special trustee status
• Commercial offices: Sellers or lessors must disclose energy efficiency
• Drafting the contract: Interpretation is more than words in isolation
• Tax shelters and schemes: Alerts and schemes
• Not just the money: Suspension of employee a loss of ‘non-pecuniary attributes’
• Key changes: New guardianship laws
• Hybrid dispute resolution: Getting the best of both worlds
• Aboriginal cultural heritage: Improved protection and harsher penalties
• Duty of care: Managing agents and caretakers responsible
• Purple winning colour: Another colour is trade marked

Legal News - Issue 3, 2010

• New law on consumer contracts: Unfair contract terms invalid
• Wills: What happens if I don’t leave a will?
• Positive outcomes: Considering mental illness of offenders
• Insolvency: You can serve a bankruptcy notice by email
• Special disability trusts: Proposals to expand beneficiaries and uses of funds
• Fraud in tendeR: Limitation caps won’t limit liability
• Credit history: How can businesses comply with privacy laws?
• Poor reputation: Evidence after the defamation
• Raising rent deceit: Shopping centre landlord’s misleading behaviour
• Intellectual property: Hard questions on the internet

Legal News - Issue 2, 2010

• Information champion: Major reform of freedom of information laws
• Illegal downloads: Internet service provider not held responsible
• Estate executors: Know your tax obligations
• Agreeing to be executor of an estate means accepting obligations to the tax office.
• Voting rights for vision impaired: Secret voting a right
• Register trust deeds: Stamp duty costs if the deed is lost
• Builders’ payments: Residential restriction on security of payment law
• Tender bids: When price can change after closing date
• Resale royalties: Sellers – and buyers – of art works may have to pay
• Third party liablility: A ‘reasonable response’ to risk of criminal act
• Mortgage trap: Stamp duty payable on vendor finance

Legal News - Issue 4, 2009

• Discrimination on Facebook: Banning sites at work may not protect employers
• Internet publication: It takes two to publish, and more can’t be assumed
• Photos as evidence: How the courts interpret the picture
• Online help in family break-UPS: www.familyseparation.humanservices.gov.au
• Travel restrictions: When the tax office can stop you leaving the country
• Emails: Making a contract by email legal
• Emails: Avoiding forgery
• Visas: New emphases on refusals and cancellations on character grounds
• Limitations on redundancy: Changes to rules on unfair dismissal
• End of life: Enforcing your wishes with an advance care directive