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Having your home built or renovated is a significant event in your life. It involves a considerable investment of emotions, time and money. The process can be enjoyable for you and stress free provided that you communicate properly with the builder so that you both understand each others expectations. Following are 10 tips to help

ACL and the case against Nurofen – misleading or deceptive conduct. The Australian Consumer Law (“ACL”) protects consumers from being a victim of misleading or deceptive conduct in trade or commerce. No company is immune from legal action if they are suspected of being in breach of the ACL. ACCC case against Nurofen The Australian

What are your options when an Income Protection claim is not paid? There are many reasons why an Insurer won’t pay out on an income protection claim on your insurance policy. Some of the reasons are: The wording of the policy allows the insurer to avoid payment eg the description of the injury or disability. The

Suing a family member can be avoided The saddest types of legal battles are those which involve our family members. People often associate a family dispute with divorce, dividing up the property or working out where the children will live after separation but I’ve noticed another type of matter emerging more often in recent years.

Just like self-diagnosing medical issues can be dangerous, so too can legal self-help or trying to fix your own legal problems. It is becoming more common that people are choosing to represent themselves or take legal action into their own hands, but have they considered the real risks?

How to recover bad debt. A healthy cash flow is important to all businesses, but it can only be adequately maintained if your debts are paid. We are often asked what a business can do when they have outstanding invoices. Here are some debt recovery options that may be available to your business: Review the

Would Your Business Be Lost? We have all, at one time or another, thought about how we will look after those we leave behind once our lives end. But have you ever spared a thought for your business, sitting lonely in the back row, grieving over your loss? While this might be a trite and

hanges to the Building and Construction Industry Security of Payments Act were passed by the NSW Parliament in November. We are just waiting for confirmation of the start date for the changes. The Act and these changes do not apply to construction contracts for the carrying out of residential building work where the person you

We were recently doing some work for a client in business who had documents that they had compiled themselves from a number of different sources. Some parts were from customers, some from suppliers and others from the Internet. They then had a customer who was not paying them for goods and services and wanted to