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It’s that time of year again, the holiday season is upon us! It’s very common for clients to buy and sell property in the time coming up to Christmas. What does this mean for contract conditions and settlement dates over the break, as most solicitor's offices are shut...

Recently Scott Lorback and I presented seminars in the Sunshine Coast libraries to inform the public about issues relating to their wills and estates, powers of attorney documents and also to make the community aware of the prevalence and rise of elder abuse in our...

Although conveyancing in Queensland has been able to slowly filter out the number of paper titles in circulation over the years, up until October 1st there were still plenty of long-lost paper titles burdening the conveyancing process for Sellers and Buyers alike....

Fiduciary obligations of a trustee have been considered and addressed by the courts (over many centuries) and more recently within legislation also. They confirm how a trustee should act when administrating a trust. An often little considered (and easily overlooked)...

The short answer; yes, but in very limited circumstances. The law attempts to strike a balance between appropriate protections for employees being dismissed when they are temporarily unable to work and for employers to have the ability to dismiss an employee who can...

Often in matrimonial cases there is a difference (sometimes a gulf) between the financial circumstances of one party compared to the other. One party might have accrued assets and income while the other party focused on the home and the children. This all works well...

  You will be entitled to some of the low and middle income tax offset if your individual taxable income is less than $126,000.   Low and Middle Income Tax Offset (LMITO) income thresholds   These LMITO thresholds apply for the 2018/2019, 2019/2020,...

George Calombaris’s restaurant group, MADE Establishment Pty Ltd, has back-paid workers $7.8 million in wages and superannuation after entering into a Court-Enforceable Undertaking (EU) with the Fair Work Ombudsman (FWO). The MADE Establishment was investigated by the...

The Fair Work Commission recently announced its decision to increase minimum wages by 3%. The new national minimum wage, which will take effect after this weekend on 1 July, will be $740.80 per week or $19.49 per hour. This is an increase of $21.60 per week up from...