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November 28, 2024
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Would you know if you were the victim of financial elder abuse?

According to NEAPS, the main perpetrators of financial abuse were adult children, with sons being twice as likely as daughters to financially abuse their parents. This was found to be commonly due to the adult child experiencing financial problems or mental health problems. What constitutes financial abuse? It includes: Help is available If you have […]

Parental Responsibility- What decisions can I make about my child after I separate and who decides what those decisions are?

Parents, during relationships, tend to make decisions about their children together. This will also commonly continue after parties separate but many family law parenting disputes are about how such decision-making powers should be divided. The power to make decisions about a child is called Parental Responsibility. Parental Responsibility is given a wide definition in the […]

Tougher Penalties for Assaults on Frontline Workers

The NSW Government has announced reforms designed to better protect frontline workers. People who assault frontline health workers, correctional and youth justice officers and emergency services staff and volunteers will face tougher penalties under new offences the government intends to legislate by the middle of this year. The government will implement all of the recommendations […]

Another attempt to enforce an employment restraint of trade fails

On 22 December 2021, the Federal Court refused an application for an injunction against two former employees of an I.T company. While a decision in respect of an injunction application is not necessarily the same as the final outcome of the dispute, the decision in this case provides useful guidance on the importance of comprehensive […]

Not Locked in the Brig, But Locked Up

In a recent decision of the Court of Appeal in the Supreme Court of New South Wales, the Court was called upon to consider the ability of the captain of a ship to detain a passenger against the passenger’s will. Briefly the facts were that on a cruise ship Passenger A was suspected of committing […]

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Would you know if you were the victim of financial elder abuse?

Parental Responsibility- What decisions can I make about my child after I separate and who decides what those decisions are?

Tougher Penalties for Assaults on Frontline Workers

Another attempt to enforce an employment restraint of trade fails

Not Locked in the Brig, But Locked Up

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