Employers – Have You Been Served with a Notice to Reimburse or a Double Avoided Premium Penalty Notice?

Being an employer or business owner is hard enough. Whether you’re looking for work, negotiating prices with customers, supervising employees or actually doing the work yourself, you have the primary duty of care for work health and safety (WHS) in the workplace. What is duty of care? Duty of care for WHS basically means you have the legal obligation to […]

Enforcing a Judgment

How Do You Get Your Money After You Win Your Case ? You have several options once judgment is given: Examination – allows you to understand the financial circumstances of the person who owes you money by compelling them to provide a detailed disclosure of their assets and liabilities. If they refuse or fail to comply with an examination summons, […]

Wills Disputes

Unfortunately, it’s become more common for people to either: be left out of someone’s Will, or to receive a significantly smaller gift than appropriate. A family provision claim is an application to the NSW Supreme Court seeking a share or, a larger share, from the estate of a deceased person. These applications must be filed within 12 months of the […]

Fencing Disputes

What happens when your neighbour wants the fence replaced and wants YOU to pay the full cost? Unless the neighbour can prove you damaged the fence and it wasn’t normal deterioration over time, then the Dividing Fences Act says both Owners need to contribute equally to build “a sufficient dividing fence.” That can include a hedge acting as a barrier, […]