Buying a property with someone else is a great way to share the fun, stress, and cost of the venture. Often people buy a house with their significant other, to make a home or invest together. Others buy property with friends, relatives or business partners. Joining...Read More
An estate plan involves more than signing a Will and leaving it in a safe place. An effective estate plan requires consideration of several matters and ongoing review to ensure it reflects your testamentary wishes and covers unexpected events. In this article, we look...Read More
A commercial dispute occurs when two or more parties have a disagreement in relation to a business matter. The subject of a commercial dispute varies however many arise due to a party’s alleged failure to perform contractual terms and conditions, which is why it is...Read More
Such a situation arose in a case in which we acted for the aggrieved neighbour. Our clients had for many years requested their neighbours to do something about damage which their neighbour’s umbrella tree was causing to the dividing wall between their respective...Read More
The relevance is because any person who acts as a Real Estate Agent must be licenced and cannot recover a fee or commission if they are not licenced. In a recent case, our client agreed to help a guarantor, who was also sole shareholder of a company in receivership....Read More
This situation arose recently for our client who had obtained a judgment in the Supreme Court against the defendant. The defendant did not pay the judgment amount and lodged an appeal in the NSW court of Appeal. This meant that even though our client had spent a...Read More
Sometimes one knows that someone has done the wrong thing by them but are not sure if one can prove it, or if it is worth pursuing. The Uniform Civil Procedure Rules seek to overcome this dilemma by permitting a party to apply for discovery of the other persons...Read More
This question arises more often than one might think. Two examples in our experience spring to mind. The first was a case where we acted for the person with the benefit of the right of way whose child was disabled and often needed urgent medical attention at all times...Read More
This happened to our clients in Queensland. The husband had three children to his first marriage and the wife two children to her first marriage. In 1985 they made mutual wills leaving the home which was in the wife’s name to her husband who was then to leave...Read More
WHAT HAPPENS IF A DEFENDANT TRIES TO TRANSFER ASSETS OUT OF THEIR NAME TO DEFEAT YOUR CLAIM This very thing happened to our client who owned a block of flats. The developer next door undermined our clients building in the course of excavation for their development....Read More
