Family Law Practitioners Association of Tasmania Inc Conference – Saturday 11 May 2013 If proven, violence perpetrated against a spouse during the course of a marriage will usually constitute an important element [...]

In a recent discussion piece entitled: Regulate Recruitment: Why? How? questions were posed about why and how the emerging recruitment profession and employment services industry could be regulated.  That discussion prompted a [...]

The Australian Consumer Law (“ACL”) makes void terms in standard form consumer contracts that are unfair. The Australian Competition & Consumer Commission (“ACCC”) recently reviewed standard form consumer contracts in the airline, [...]

Recruiters might be interested, in light of recent discussion about industry regulation, to see how the pieces may already be coming together: Australian Consumer Law is changed in 2010 to include unfair consumer [...]

In the face of the most recent call, this time from industry insiders, to regulate the Australian recruitment industry I am left asking two questions: Why? How? It’s not that the industry [...]

Earlier this week the NSW Court of Appeal in Resource Pacific Pty Ltd v Wilkinson [2103] NSWCA 33 considered the question of the adequacy of judicial reasons for judgment. The following is [...]

  To give you a glimpse of the blindingly obvious, I will commence by saying that a lawyer’s ethical responsibilities in the practice of advocacy spring from his or her “paramount” and [...]

Yesterday the Victorian Court of Appeal handed down a decision on the qualification of psychiatrists to give expert evidence as to the common behaviour of child victims of sexual abuse within families [...]

  You may lose a case in the short term. You then move on to the next one. Time should heal any pain of losing a case. But if you lose your [...]