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Fam­i­ly Law | Arbi­tra­tion vs Medi­a­tion, weigh­ing up what is right for you

There are var­i­ous options avail­able to assist par­ties to resolve their Fam­i­ly Law dis­pute out­side of lit­i­ga­tion, includ­ing medi­a­tion and arbi­tra­tion. This arti­cle pro­vides an overview of both options to assist you to con­sid­er what may be suit­able to resolve your dispute. Arbi­tra­tion Fam­i­ly Law Arbi­tra­tions have been avail­able to par­ties…

Michael Byrnes fea­tured in HRM Online — 19 August 2020

In the sec­ond of a two-part guide to over­pay­ments, HRM cov­ers the basics of the law, and how to best engage an over­paid employ­ee. View arti­cle here…

Angela Har­vey recog­nised in Doyles Guide 2020

As part of the Estate Plan­ning and Wealth Man­age­ment prac­tice, Ange­la’s expe­ri­ence includes asset pro­tec­tion, trusts, suc­ces­sion plan­ning, analysing estab­lished struc­tures, con­test­ed estates — includ­ing fam­i­ly pro­vi­sion mat­ters, fam­i­ly asset arrange­ments, and prepa­ra­tion of Wills, Pow­ers of Attor­ney and Endur­ing Guardian documents. Our ded­i­cat­ed pro­fes­sion­als have been select­ed because of their…

NSW Con­struc­tion Indus­try Reform

The NSW Build­ing Com­mis­sion­er, David Chan­dler OAM, is at the ready with ​‘boots on the ground’, to ​‘rid the indus­try of dan­ger­ous builders, devel­op­ers and cer­ti­fiers’ and improve con­sumer con­fi­dence in the buy­ing of res­i­den­tial apart­ments in NSW with the com­mence­ment on 1 Sep­tem­ber 2020 of the Res­i­den­tial Apart­ment Build­ings (Com­pli­ance…

Can we build bet­ter build­ings in NSW?

The con­struc­tion indus­try in New South Wales is in cri­sis and has been at an impasse for a pro­longed peri­od of time. The ques­tion as to why we have so many build­ing defects, par­tic­u­lar­ly in mul­ti-storey res­i­den­tial apart­ment build­ings, was being asked long before the Opal and Mas­cot tow­er dis­as­ters and…

Intel­lec­tu­al Prop­er­ty in a Cyber World

Intel­lec­tu­al prop­er­ty is the legal asset in inno­va­tion. The val­ue of inno­va­tion to a busi­ness depends on the extent to which that inno­va­tion is direct­ed to the needs of the rel­e­vant mar­ket. If an inno­va­tion meets that need effec­tive­ly and unique­ly, it can pro­vide that busi­ness with sub­stan­tial­ly increased rev­enue and…

Your web­site users could expose you to copy­right infringement

Your web­site is under your con­trol and you should ensure that all the mate­r­i­al which you place on your web­site does not infringe the copy­right of oth­ers. Reg­u­lar audit­ing of your own web­site con­tent is there­fore advis­able to avoid copy­right infringement. How­ev­er, in cer­tain indus­tries, such as per­son­nel, edu­ca­tion and…

Right to toi­let break a relief for employees

In the recent deci­sion of Retail and Fast Food Work­ers Union Incor­po­rat­ed v Tan­tex Hold­ings Pty Ltd [2020] FCA 1258, an Aus­tralian court (name­ly the Fed­er­al Court) has, for the first time, held that employ­ees have a work­place right to use the toi­let and drink water while at work. This deter­mi­na­tion was made…

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.…

Swaab Con­nect | August 2020

In this edi­tion Part­ner, Helen Kow­al dis­cuss­es build­ing defects in stra­ta schemes and what a stra­ta scheme should do to ensure their rights under the Home Build­ing Act 1989 (HBA). Michael Byrnes dis­cuss­es the duties owed by employ­ers to pro­tect the health and safe­ty of staff when sit­u­a­tions arise in rela­tion…

Michael Byrnes fea­tured in HRM Online — 14 Sep­tem­ber 2020

A recent Fair Work Com­mis­sion case out­lines the dan­ger in assum­ing busi­ness issues caused by COVID-19 change employ­er oblig­a­tions. Read the com­plete arti­cle here.…

Job­Keep­er 2.0: What employ­ers need to know

On 1 Sep­tem­ber 2020, the Fed­er­al Gov­ern­ment passed the Coro­n­avirus Eco­nom­ic Response Pack­age (Job­Keep­er Pay­ments) Amend­ment Bill 2020 which has enabled the exten­sion of the Job­Keep­er scheme. In this arti­cle we sum­marise the main points of the extend­ed scheme, dubbed Job­Keep­er 2.0. Employ­er eligibility  When the Job­Keep­er scheme was orig­i­nal­ly imple­ment­ed…

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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…

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…