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Sala­cious facts, impor­tant principles

The atten­tion an unfair dis­missal case receives is some­times pro­por­tion­ate to how sala­cious the under­ly­ing facts con­sid­ered in the case are as opposed to the impor­tance of any legal prin­ci­ples that emerge. Hav­ing said that, an inter­est­ing fac­tu­al matrix (which some­times results in a ​“tabloid” or ​“click­bait” treat­ment of a case)…

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We are com­mit­ted to mak­ing our web­site acces­si­ble to all users and we have includ­ed sev­er­al fea­tures designed to improve acces­si­bil­i­ty and usability. Our goal is to com­ply with the require­ments of Part III of the Dis­abil­i­ty Dis­crim­i­na­tion Act 1995 and the Pri­or­i­ty 1 Aspects of the Web Con­tent Acces­si­bil­i­ty Guide­lines pro­posed…

Swaab Attor­neys announces a record nine promotions

Swaab Attor­neys are delight­ed to announce the fol­low­ing inter­nal pro­mo­tions across the fir­m’s employ­ment, lit­i­ga­tion, IP & tech­nol­o­gy, com­mer­cial, cor­po­rate and prop­er­ty, plan­ning and projects teams, effec­tive 1 July 2018. Spe­cial Counsel · Wendy Con­ce­icao, Prop­er­ty, Plan­ning and Projects · Stacey Collins, Prop­er­ty, Plan­ning and Projects Senior Asso­ciate · Tim­o­thy Hard­wick, Litigation · Alyce John­son, Prop­er­ty…

Swaab Con­nect | July 2018

As the school hol­i­days around NSW start, Sher­lene Heng exam­ines how the Fam­i­ly Law Act and the courts deter­mine par­ent­ing arrange­ments dur­ing school hol­i­day time. Michael Byrnes shares two arti­cles this month, first­ly on the recent AHRC report into dis­crim­i­na­tion in employ­ment on the basis of crim­i­nal record and sec­ond­ly…

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The AHRC and Crim­i­nal Record Dis­crim­i­na­tion: A Tooth­less Tiger

The recent AHRC report into dis­crim­i­na­tion in employ­ment on the basis of crim­i­nal record, BE v Sun­corp Group Ltd [2018] AusHRC 121, has gar­nered sig­nif­i­cant media atten­tion and com­mu­ni­ty debate. What it serves to high­light is that the Aus­tralian Human Rights Com­mis­sion (AHRC) is a ​“tooth­less tiger” when it comes to dis­crim­i­na­tion…

Every­one lies in their job appli­ca­tions… so can I fire them?

There is a com­mon per­cep­tion that most peo­ple lie in their résumés and job appli­ca­tions. Whether it be the exag­ger­at­ing the senior­i­ty of a role, extend­ing the length of time you actu­al­ly worked in a par­tic­u­lar posi­tion or describ­ing a par­tic­u­lar epoch as ​“time spent trav­el­ling” to avoid dis­clos­ing a short but ill-fat­ed peri­od of…

Estab­lish­ment fees in pri­vate financ­ing transactions

As the banks have tight­ened their lend­ing cri­te­ria, we have been work­ing with a num­ber of pri­vate financiers who have increased their activ­i­ty to sat­is­fy the demand for debt finance in the SME mar­ket. Most lenders charge bor­row­ers an estab­lish­ment fee to help recov­er the costs of estab­lish­ing a loan facil­i­ty. The…

Right to ter­mi­nate con­tracts for insolvency

“Ipso fac­to” claus­es are claus­es which allow a par­ty to ter­mi­nate a con­tract if the oth­er par­ty suf­fers an insol­ven­cy event. These pro­vi­sions are enforce­able even if the insol­vent par­ty has oth­er­wise con­tin­ued to per­form its oblig­a­tions under the contract. Some impor­tant reforms came into force on 1 July 2018 which restrict the oper­a­tion…

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