Dispute Resolution
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 we settled some submissions to Telstra on behalf of a client who has been badly stuffed around by Telstra: The client bought a bus...
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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, b...
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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,...
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We saw a new client yesterday with an interesting problem. He leased out commercial premises. They were damaged in a storm. The tenant was r...
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It has been a week for resolving disputes. Today Michael’s off to Francis Street Northbridge, to try to settle a dispute with the ATO. U...
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It has been a week for resolving disputes. We re-listed one matter for mediation after the two other parties failed to reach an agreement in...
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We were contacted by one owner of a SMSF that has contracted to have a building constructed. Our client agreed to the builder’s suggestion...
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One of our clients has a dispute with a factoring company. A factor buys debts at a discount from companies that have cash flow issues, but ...
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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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We met a new client yesterday who is looking to allow some of his employees to buy into his company. We discussed different ways and means â...
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We are now ready to release our New Building Contract Management Kit for builders, consisting of: a contract for residential buildings a con...
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We put together an interesting suite of documents this week: A lease of a large commercial property from one company which owns the property...
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It has been a week for option agreements this week. We amended one that gives a couple of potential investors the option to invest multip...
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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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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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This week we received a call from a friend of a client with an employment issue. He was recruited, signed a contract and shown his office an...
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