Dispute Resolution
This week we received an enquiry about a breach of copyright. Our client claims to own the copyright in several documentaries which have b...
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Michael met with a lady who had recently sold some vacant land. The buyer was not happy about the sewer line on which she could not build a...
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In this case, the Applicant lived in a lower floor unit in a Strata development. The Respondents living in the unit immediately above the Ap...
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One of our client’s has been strung along for some months with promises of payment and extra work. The promises have all been broken, ...
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This week we finalised an agreement to send numerous disputes regarding a lease to arbitration. One dispute related to whether the lessee or...
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This week we received an e-mail from a lady whose step-son has served a Family Provision claim on her and his half-brother, his father havin...
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Michael attended a District Court mediation last week. We represented one elderly defendant. The plaintiff had a somewhat ambit claim seekin...
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Kellie was in Midland last week seeking summary judgment in case we are working on. The Claimant first of all tried to sue our client’s co...
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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. ...
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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 be...
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This week I’ve been helping a client negotiate a sub-lease of a heritage-listed commercial property. I am a bit concerned because the land...
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As a lawyer with a computer science degree, I like to write the occasional bit of software, often in Microsoft WordBasic. We recently change...
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An old client came to us last week seeking independent advice on loan contract, guarantees and mortgages being given as security for a loan....
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We received an e-mail from an old IT client who had a trade mark issue. A cruise company wanted to register a trade mark in relation to some...
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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 sha...
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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 r...
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A lot of businesses extend credit to their customers. We recommend businesses require their customers to make credit application, which inco...
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People are starting to do business again. This week we received some instructions to: prepare a sale agreement for the sale of 20% of the un...
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We’ve been doing quite a bit of IT-related legal work this week – a copyright assignment deed in relation to a computer program, a head ...
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More people are starting to do business again. This week we received some instructions from one new to: help restructure a group of companie...
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One of our clients needs some documents notarised and sent to the US, as part of the process of winding up her late husband’s estate.
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What to do when a loved one has Alzheimer’s and is incapable of looking after themselves or making decisions: You would need to obtain a G...
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This case is an appeal regarding a Will bequeathing a house as a gift to a friend. On the face of it, the clause was straight forward: “...
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This week Michael met with an accountant to receive some instructions to apply for probate on a Will that we drafted about 10 years ago. The...
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This week we received an e-mail from a lady whose step-son has served a Family Provision claim on her and his half-brother, his father havin...
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Last week we attended the longest day’s mediation we’ve ever been involved with. We did not get out until after 7.00pm. We almost fi...
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Today Michael will be in Court most of the day attending a mediation in which he will be trying to settle six related Court actions. One is ...
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We saw 2 clients two weeks ago to prepare some wills. Both were divorced some 20 years ago. Both were unaware that the wills that they exe...
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We’ve been helping a client wind up an estate. Unfortunately, she started without us, and distributed a lot of what should have been the r...
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Yesterday Jarred and Irene spent half a day each interviewing clients as part of a fund raiser for the Red Cross. The clients paid the Red...
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We are working on a set of documents for a proposed development: A trust deed making it clear that the trustees are purchasing the land on t...
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