“The important thing”, said Albert Einstein, “is not to stop questioning”.  Which is all very well for Einstein, but he wasn’t running a serviced apartment property at the time. When choosing accommodation in hotels and serviced apartments, consumers are increasingly reliant on reviews provided by websites such as TripAdvisor.  To collect as many reviews as

In what must rank as one of the speedier capitulations to a regulator in recent Australian legal history, the ACCC has today announced that waste management company JJ Richards & Sons Pty Ltd has consented to court orders by which JJ Richards agreed that no fewer than 8 terms of the standard form contract used

The secret recording has long been the staple of cop shows and gangster movies. The tension builds as the informant is “wired up” – will the wire be discovered? Will the criminals spill the beans about their dastardly plans? And most importantly, will it all happen before I’ve finished this popcorn? Secret recordings raise different

OK, we apologise for the clickbait headline, but this is an article about the Personal Property Securities Act 2009 (Cth) (the PPSA) – and we know that much of the PPSA is so snooze-worthy that cases concerning its application are recommended by 9 of 10 doctors as emergency substitutes when your prescription sleeping medication runs

The High Court of Australia has granted special leave to appeal in a case concerning the duty of care which an employer owes to an employee when conducting workplace investigations.  The grant of special leave does not necessarily mean that the law will change, but it does provide a useful opportunity to consider some of

it is sometimes said that there is no limit to the ingenuity of lawyers, which may go some way to explaining why a plaintiff complaining of a slip and fall in a Paris hotel shower was suing a Singapore company in the Supreme Court of New South Wales last month. However, the plaintiff did not

A couple of months ago, we wrote about an American dance/rock band who had to go all the way to the top (in this case, the US Supreme Court) in order to win the right to trade mark their band name.  We then considered how that case might have played out in Australia, given the

On 8 September, 2017, a major step will be taken to preserve and protect the marine environment from alien invasive species when the International Convention for the Control of Ship’s Ballast Water and Sediments, 2004 (Ballast Water Convention) comes into force. The problem of alien invasive species in the marine environment is one of the

Between 2012 and 2015, a husband and wife operated a radio base for a truck repair company in Wagga  Wagga.  The question of whether they did so as employees or contractors, however, was anything but basic. After 7 days of hearing in the Federal Court, a judgment of 343 paragraphs was delivered.  The judgment identified

We are all used to seeing pop-up warnings when we go to delete electronic documents, although the pop-ups don’t usually warn us about things like “contempt of court” or “abuse of process”.  However, the destruction of documents can have serious consequences in litigation. A recent case in the Supreme Court of New South Wales has confirmed that