Search

Michael Byrnes is quot­ed in the arti­cle, ​“Employ­ers, unions clash over non-com­pete clause ban”, pub­lished in The Aus­tralian on 26 March 2025

Michael Byrnes is quot­ed in the arti­cle, ​“Employ­ers, unions clash over non-com­pete clause ban”, pub­lished in The Aus­tralian on 26 March 2025.To read the full arti­cle click here…

Fail­ing to Reg­is­ter a PPSR Secu­ri­ty Inter­est on Time – Legal Risks and Options

Intro­duc­tionTime­ly reg­is­tra­tion of secu­ri­ty inter­ests under the Per­son­al Prop­er­ty Secu­ri­ties Act 2009 (Cth) (PPSA) is essen­tial for secured cred­i­tors to pro­tect their rights. Fail­ure to reg­is­ter with­in the pre­scribed time­frames can result in the cred­i­tor los­ing pri­or­i­ty to unse­cured cred­i­tors in the event of insolvency.While cred­i­tors who have failed to reg­is­ter…

Michael Byrnes appeared on Break­fast with Ron Wil­son on 2SM on 2 April 2025 to dis­cuss the pro­posed lim­i­ta­tion on non-com­pete clauses

Michael Byrnes appeared on Break­fast with Ron Wil­son on 2SM on 2 April 2025 to dis­cuss the pro­posed lim­i­ta­tion on non-com­pete clausesTo lis­ten to the full inter­view click here…

Mark Glynn

Exper­tise Con­struc­tion …

Michael Byrnes is quot­ed in the arti­cle, ​“Police and Safe­Work are inves­ti­gat­ing MAFS, but the show keeps win­ning the rat­ings race”, pub­lished on ABC News on 6 April 2025

Michael Byrnes is quot­ed in the arti­cle, ​“Police and Safe­Work are inves­ti­gat­ing MAFS, but the show keeps win­ning the rat­ings race”, pub­lished on ABC News on 6 April 2025To read the full arti­cle click here…

Res­i­den­tial Ten­an­cies Act 2010 (NSW) reforms and oblig­a­tions of land­lords — effec­tive from 19 May 2025

Intro­duc­tionThe Res­i­den­tial Ten­an­cies Act 2010 (NSW) (the Act) and the Res­i­den­tial Ten­an­cies Reg­u­la­tion 2019 (NSW) (the Reg­u­la­tions) have under­gone some sig­nif­i­cant changes fol­low­ing a pro­longed and exten­sive con­sul­ta­tion peri­od with prop­er­ty man­age­ment stake­hold­ers. These changes have gen­er­at­ed a lot of buzz as they seek to improve the rights of ten­ants in NSW and…

Press Release | New Asso­ciate Appoint­ment — Hugo Mahony

“As we con­tin­ue to expand in line with our strate­gic vision, Hugo’s deep knowl­edge and expe­ri­ence in Com­mer­cial, Cor­po­rate, IP & Tech­nol­o­gy law posi­tions him per­fect­ly with­in our team. His appoint­ment strength­ens our abil­i­ty to meet our client needs with excel­lence, ensur­ing we main­tain our hall­mark ded­i­ca­tion and Swaab Brand of…

Press Release | New Part­ner Appoint­ment — Mark Glynn

With over two decades in the indus­try, Mark is a recog­nised front-end con­struc­tion lawyer spe­cial­ist with­in the build­ing and con­struc­tion indus­try. Mark has worked with clients in both the pri­vate and pub­lic sec­tor, up and down the con­tract­ing chain, assist­ing them deliv­er­ing projects with­in their accept­able lev­els of risk.“As we con­tin­ue to grow…

Choose Your Own Respon­dent in Gen­er­al Pro­tec­tions Dis­missal Disputes

Usu­al­ly when one par­ty is tak­ing legal pro­ceed­ings against anoth­er the respon­dent enti­ty needs to be care­ful­ly iden­ti­fied. It can be fatal to the pro­ceed­ings if the wrong enti­ty is sued. This stands to rea­son giv­en the adverse con­se­quences that can flow from lit­i­ga­tion. There is usu­al­ly a process by which…

Amend­ments to NCC 2022 com­menc­ing on 1 May 2025

Back­groundThe Aus­tralian Build­ing Codes Board (ABCB), a joint ini­tia­tive of the Com­mon­wealth and state and ter­ri­to­ry gov­ern­ments togeth­er with the build­ing and plumb­ing indus­tries, is respon­si­ble for the Nation­al Con­struc­tion Code, Water­Mark and Code­Mark Cer­ti­fi­ca­tion Schemes, and reg­u­la­to­ry reform in the con­struc­tion industry. One of the ABCB’s pri­ma­ry roles is to update and main­tain…

Match­ing Par­ent­ing Orders to Risk: Craft­ing orders to prop­er­ly address the dan­gers in a fam­i­ly law matter

The focus of any par­ent­ing mat­ter being dealt with in the Fed­er­al Cir­cuit and Fam­i­ly Court of Aus­tralia is what orders are in the best inter­ests of the child. To deter­mine what is in the best inter­ests of the child, the Court must con­sid­er all of the evi­dence pre­sent­ed in…

Meta’s AI law­suit in the USA & what it could mean for the future of AI & copyright

Recent­ly, Meta appeared in a US fed­er­al court to defend one of the most close­ly watched copy­right chal­lenges of the AI era. The law­suit is being brought by a group of promi­nent US authors includ­ing Ta-Nehisi Coates and Richard Kadrey. The plain­tiffs allege that Meta unlaw­ful­ly used mil­lions of copy­right­ed books, down­loaded…

Press Release | Swaab’s James Skel­ton Appoint­ed Chair of Glob­al Emerg­ing Lead­ers Advi­so­ry Board at Mer­i­tas AGM in Mex­i­co City

In this piv­otal lead­er­ship role, James will guide ini­tia­tives to strength­en rela­tion­ships among Emerg­ing Lead­ers across Mer­i­tas’ 175 glob­al mem­ber firms and enhance resources that sup­port a net­work of more than 9,000 lawyers worldwide.James joins the lead­er­ship team alongside:Mol­ly Cam­po­long – Chair-Elect (Robin­son Gray, Colum­bia, South Car­oli­na, USA)Jem­ma For­rest – Sec­re­tary (Ander­son Strath­ern, Glas­gow…

Which edi­tion of Build­ing Code of Aus­tralia applies to devel­op­ments in NSW?

The Build­ing Code of Aus­tralia (BCA) is part of the the Nation­al Con­struc­tion Code (NCC). The NCC is updat­ed every 3 years, based on required reg­u­la­to­ry prac­tices, indus­try research, pub­lic feed­back and pol­i­cy direc­tions from gov­ern­ments between pub­lish­ing cycles.Con­struc­tion projects often span 2 ver­sions of the BCA.There has his­tor­i­cal­ly been much debate in the New…

Devel­op­ers beware the statu­to­ry ​‘non del­e­gable’ duty of care under the Design and Build­ing Prac­ti­tion­ers Act 2020

The Design and Build­ing Prac­ti­tion­ers Act 2020 (DBP Act) came into effect in NSW in June 2020. Since its intro­duc­tion the courts have pro­vid­ed guid­ance on the inter­pre­ta­tion and reach of this Act. This arti­cle looks at the recent High Court deci­sion of Paf­burn Pty Ltd v The Own­ers – Stra­ta Plan No…