News

10 Nov 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!…

21 Sept 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…

3 Sept 2020

Michael Byrnes dis­cussed the recent Fed­er­al Court deci­sion deal­ing with the right of employ­ees to take toi­let and drink breaks with John Stan­ley on 2GB, 2CC and 4BC on 2 Sep­tem­ber 2020.

Michael Byrnes dis­cussed the recent Fed­er­al Court deci­sion deal­ing with the right of employ­ees to take toi­let and drink breaks with John Stan­ley on 2GB, 2CC and 4BC on 2 Sep­tem­ber 2020.Lis­ten to pod­cast click here.…

31 July 2020

Michael Byrnes dis­cuss­es the WHS law issues relat­ing to food deliv­ery rid­ers and gig econ­o­my workers

Michael Byrnes dis­cuss­es the Work Health & Safe­ty (WHS) law issues relat­ing to food deliv­ery rid­ers and gig econ­o­my work­ers gen­er­al­ly with John Stan­ley and Paul B. Kidd on 2GB, 2CC and 4BC on 30 July 2020 (from 41:40) To lis­ten to the pod­cast click here…

12 June 2020

Updates to NSW WHS Laws: A Brief Overview by Michael Byrnes and Emi­ly Capener

WHS Laws: A Brief Overview On 4 June 2020, NSW Par­lia­ment passed the Work Health and Safe­ty Amend­ment (Review) Bill 2020 (the Amend­ment Bill) which intro­duced var­i­ous changes to WHS laws under the NSW Work Health and Safe­ty Act 2001 (the Act). These changes, the most sig­nif­i­cant of which are briefly out­lined…

24 Apr 2020

COVID-19 | Wit­ness­ing the exe­cu­tion of doc­u­ments dur­ing the pandemic

What’s news in New South Wales? The Elec­tron­ic Trans­ac­tions Amend­ment (COVID-19 Wit­ness­ing of Doc­u­ments) Reg­u­la­tion 2020 (NSW) The COVID-19 Leg­is­la­tion Amend­ment (Emer­gency Mea­sures) Act 2020 (NSW) includ­ed a reg­u­la­tion-mak­ing pow­er in sec­tion 17 of Elec­tron­ic Trans­ac­tions Act 2000 (NSW) (the Act) to pro­vide for altered arrange­ments for the sig­na­ture, wit­ness­ing or attes­ta­tion…

27 Mar 2020

Lawyers Week­ly | Indef­i­nite remote work­ing to have last­ing impact on firms’ WHS poli­cies | 26 March 2020

Part­ner Michael Byrnes fea­tured in Lawyers Week­ly on 26 March 2020 to dis­cuss how indef­i­nite remote work­ing arrange­ments will have last­ing impact on firms’ WHS policies. Indef­i­nite remote work­ing to have last­ing impacts on firms’ WHS poli­cies — Lawyers Week­ly — 26 March 2020, fea­tur­ing Part­ner Michael Byrnes…

25 Mar 2020

UPDATE #2 COVID-19 | Swaab Busi­ness Con­ti­nu­ity | 25 March 2020

As the cri­sis con­tin­ues to unfold in Aus­tralia, we have made the deci­sion that from Thurs­day 26 March 2020 our entire work­force (includ­ing part­ners) will work remotely.  We are very for­tu­nate, that as far as we are aware none of our peo­ple have con­tract­ed Covid-19. We are com­mit­ted to pro­vid­ing an excel­lent…

17 Mar 2020

UPDATE COVID-19 | Swaab Busi­ness Con­ti­nu­ity | 17 March 2020

Over the past few weeks, with the esca­la­tion of the COVID-19 out­break, we at Swaab have tak­en pre­cau­tions to ensure the safe­ty, health and well­be­ing of our peo­ple, clients and visitors. As the cri­sis con­tin­ues to increase in Aus­tralia, we have made the deci­sion that from Mon­day 23 March 2020 we…

16 Mar 2020

World’s Great­est Shave 2020

On Fri­day night we assem­bled our hero hair­dressers at the Swaab Salon to ban­ish the 9 – 5 hair­do to colour, style and shave hair for the Leukaemia Foun­da­tion’s World’s Great­est Shave Event 2020! A mas­sive thank you to all the super­heros who took the plunge and got involved on the…