by Janis Donnelly-Coode | Nov 10, 2017 | Civil wrongs, Real Estate or Conveyancing Law
Can a tenant have pets in NSW? The Residential Tenancies Act in NSW is actually silent on this point. What that means is that a landlord is not prohibited from putting in a clause that says that a tenant cannot keep a pet. There is some advocacy in NSW to bring in a...
by | Jun 2, 2017 | Civil wrongs, General
Choice expresses concern The advocacy group Choice expressed concerns in an article in February 2017 that the private health insurance companies were increasing premiums in April 2017 at a rate that was triple the rate of inflation. Choice fears this will force...
by Bruce Coode | Apr 21, 2017 | Administrative Law, Civil wrongs
The New South Wales government created a tribunal called the Civil and Administrative Tribunal (NCAT) a few years ago with the aim of bringing many o the separate bodies like The Guardianship Tribunal under the one roof as it were. NCAT now deals with disputes that...
by Bruce Coode | Apr 21, 2017 | Civil wrongs, Council, Employment Law
Sometimes you are not an individual in your own right, sometimes you are an agent of a company or government department, you are the company personified. What does that mean? It means that what you do, you do on behalf of that government department and the government...
by | Jan 20, 2017 | Administrative Law, Civil wrongs
Are you having a problem with Centrelink? Are you one of the 170,000 Australians who has received a debt recovery letter from Centrelink? Do you think it is a debt that you don't owe? While this is very stressful, the answer is not to ignore the letter and assume it...
by | Dec 16, 2016 | Civil wrongs
We recently published an article about revenge p*2n and the difficulty in shutting any of the sites down. Recently the Federal Court has ordered that certain websites like Pirate Bay be blocked as a result of illegal activity, but all the Court can actually do is...
