I am Notary Public and we had the AGM of the Public Notaries Society of WA on Tuesday. At 54 I drop the average age of the Notaries by a year or 2! I am also the secretary, and we covered a lot of ground on Tuesday and so the minutes took me ages to […]
I am Notary Public and we had the AGM of the Public Notaries Society of WA on Tuesday. One item discussed involved a solicitor in Perth, who could be in a lot of trouble. It seems that he has been purporting to be Notary, with his own “Notary Public” stamp, but he is not. While
This week we’ve been helping an old client with a business venture that has been running for nine years. They run a hospitality business. The soon-to-be ex-wife of one of the directors is a rather aggressive lawyer who is making all sorts of allegations about my client and other directors, other than her father, who
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This week we went through a strategy for a client who is building a house and has some issues with his builder, including: Variations not being writing – which will make it difficult for the builder to claim for those changes; The builder has tried to claim for installation and delivery costs in relation to
This week we settled some submissions to Telstra on behalf of a client who has been badly stuffed around by Telstra: The client bought a business; It took 162 days for Telstra to redirect the phone number; A few months later, the redirection stopped for 43 days no apparent reason; In the meantime, Telstra put
A lot of companies have gone into liquidation in recent years. Our client claimed he was owed consulting fees by a company in liquidation. The liquidator did not allow the proof of debt because there was a written contract with another related management company to which the consulting services would be provided, though that company
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A lot of companies have gone into liquidation in recent years. Our client claimed he was owed consulting fees by a company in liquidation, but the liquidator did not allow the proof of debt because there was a written contract with another related management company to which the consulting services would be provided, though that
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We spoke to an old colleague of Michael’s this week who is merging his business with the business of another old colleague. He needs a share swap agreement with the first guy’s company becoming a subsidiary of the second guy’s company, and the first guy taking shares in the second guy’s company. They also want
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We’ve been helping a client with documentation to buy a café this week. A real estate agent who is acting for the seller put together a rather shonky sale agreement. We have drafted a proper one using our own pro forma agreement. Among other things, our client can pull out if he is not happy
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Last Friday we received an e-mail from a worried IT service provider client. His client’s admin@ e-mail account seems to have been hacked, with the hacker: monitoring the e-mails; noticing an invoice being issued and sent out for $262,708.38; sending out an e-mail advising of a change of bank account, and asking for the invoiced