Dispute Resolution

A new client was referred to me this week by a patent attorney.  My client has been accused of infringing a patent, and US$500k is being sought. My client was not aware of the patent, but had sought to buy...

This court case illustrates why these sorts of family provision matters should settle, particularly for a small estate. The first 132 paragraphs deal with the facts.  From that, the Judge concluded that adequate provision had not been made for the...

We are dealing with a building dispute. We are concerned the building company involved will drag out the matter, and then go into liquidation. So this week we’ve been investigating what recourse our client might have. We will be able...

Here is a link to a flyer which you may have seen, click HERE.  In summary: Creditors Statutory Demands (CSDs):  The temporary increase in the threshold from $2K to $20K and the increase in the time period in which to...

I was at a Supreme Court mediation yesterday trying to resolve a long-running dispute. I’m afraid that the enemy just wasted our time.  This was a third attempt.  On the first attempt we thought we had a resolution to the...

We deal with various IT clients.  One client provides software for the Aged Care sector. That client has received 2 rather unusual requests from the Royal Commission into Aged Care, which required some legal advice, because the Commission was considering...

We seem to be attracting building disputes at the moment. I am helping one lady who bought a couple of “tiny houses”, one to live in and one to rent out. She recently went to sell them, but the buyer...

I had prepared a shareholder agreement for some clients.  An issue arose between two groups of shareholders and one group asked me if I could interpret the shareholder agreement and that everyone had agreed that they would abide by the...

We are flat out at the moment with: A major Supreme Court matter with a hearing next week; A district court and a magistrates court hearing tomorrow; and 2 arbitrations with relatively short time tables, … all running at once!...

We have two building arbitration’s running at the moment which are keeping us very busy. We get a skewed view on life as lawyers, since we see a lot of building non-compliance issues and failure to comply with the National...