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Mar 16, 2021

Helen Kow­al to present on 25 March 2021 for Legal­wise | Design and Build­ing Prac­ti­tion­ers Act 2020: New Duties and Penal­ties for Architects

Helen Kow­al shares an out­line of the new duties and penal­ties for archi­tects under the new Design and Build­ing Prac­ti­tion­ers Act 2020. She will be delv­ing fur­ther into this top­ic at the upcom­ing Law for Archi­tects: Cru­cial Issues in Com­pli­ance and Con­tracts sem­i­nar on Thurs­day 25 March. Read out­line here…

Feb 5, 2021

Press Release | New Senior Appoint­ment for Swaab

Julie Briscoe – Part­ner, Prop­er­ty and Com­mer­cial Law, spe­cialis­es in all aspects of com­mer­cial and retail prop­er­ty law, while also hav­ing exten­sive expe­ri­ence in cor­po­rate and trust struc­tur­ing and finance trans­ac­tions. With over 20 years’ expe­ri­ence Julie joins our ever-grow­ing prop­er­ty and com­mer­cial team.  To meet our clients increas­ing needs and as…

Jan 18, 2021

Press Release | Three New Senior Appoint­ments for Swaab

Tri­na Fran­cis – Part­ner, Fam­i­ly Law, spe­cial­is­ing in fam­i­ly law, lawyer-assist­ed medi­a­tion and lit­i­ga­tion will be join­ing our award win­ning accred­it­ed spe­cial­ist Fam­i­ly Law team. With over 20 years’ expe­ri­ence Tri­na has worked exclu­sive­ly in the area of Fam­i­ly Law, ini­tial­ly as an advo­cate for clients of a com­mu­ni­ty legal cen­tre before…

Nov 25, 2020

Macarthur Devel­op­ments wins 2020 Devel­op­ment Excel­lence Award | Mas­ter­planned Com­mu­ni­ty Devel­op­ment – Emer­ald Hills Estate

Urban Task­force Chief Exec­u­tive, Tom For­rest said the Devel­op­ment Excel­lence Awards have clear­ly demon­strat­ed the prop­er­ty devel­op­ment industry’s pas­sion and com­mit­ment for the sus­tain­able growth Australia’s cities. Man­ag­ing Part­ner — Mary Digiglio, said this was a well deserved win for our client, Macarthur Devel­op­ments and is a tes­ta­ment to every­one’s skill, deter­mi­na­tion and…

Nov 10, 2020

Hol­i­day Office Clo­sure 2020

If you need to speak with one of our lawyers, please call +61 2 9233 5544. We wish you a hap­py hol­i­days and a pros­per­ous new year!…

Sep 24, 2020

COVID-19 | Ten­an­cy Update

On 23 Sep­tem­ber 2020, the NSW Gov­ern­ment announced the Retail and oth­er Com­mer­cial Leas­es (COVID-19) Reg­u­la­tion (Reg­u­la­tion) will be extend­ed until 31 Decem­ber 2020. The Reg­u­la­tion, which was set to expire on 25 Octo­ber 2020, gives effect to the Nation­al Cab­i­net Manda­to­ry Code of Con­duct – SME Com­mer­cial Leas­ing Prin­ci­ples Dur­ing…

Sep 21, 2020

A spe­cial thank you to all our clients

Client feed­back and con­tin­u­ous improve­ment are impor­tant to us at Swaab and form a key com­po­nent of our Swaab Brand of Service.  The key find­ings included: we exceed­ed your expec­ta­tions when it comes to our performance you find us extreme­ly easy to work with, and  you are like­ly to rec­om­mend your key con­tact and…

Jun 19, 2020

Press Release – Swaab and Hard­ings Lawyers integration

Both Swaab and Hard­ings Lawyers share sev­er­al core areas of exper­tise and indus­try sec­tor expe­ri­ence, which inspired the integration. “This project was dri­ven by a desire to fur­ther devel­op our domes­tic and inter­na­tion­al legal ser­vice offer­ing through an align­ment which make sense strate­gi­cal­ly and feels good cul­tur­al­ly. Hard­ings Lawyers and Swaab…

Jun 15, 2020

Inter­view | Con­struc­tion com­pa­nies must avoid cost­ly legal disputes

Helen shares insights and strate­gies on how to avoid dis­putes. You can find the full inter­view ​‘here’. …

Jun 15, 2020

Legal­wise Sem­i­nar | Law for Archi­tects: Con­tracts, Plan­ning & Disputes

A link to the full pro­gram of events can be found here. The pro­gram has been devel­oped for archi­tects specif­i­cal­ly around the new Design and Build­ing Prac­ti­tion­ers Act 2020 (which came into effect last Thurs­day 11 June 2020).Helen’s pre­sen­ta­tion will cov­er the fol­low­ing areas:How did the Draft Bill come about?What does it mean for…