Dispute Resolution
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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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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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 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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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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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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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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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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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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Our client’s recently ex-husband died. The house was in joint names, so it automatically went to her and did not form part of his estate. ...
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