Proposed Rental Law Changes – what you need to know</strong>
By Madeleine Harling With more rental law reform incoming, it’s important that both tenants and landlords are familiar with their rights and obligations. Rent increase – once per year Importantly, on 28 March 2023, the Premier announced the Queens
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Queensland Proposed Changes to Body Corporate Legislation 2023
The Palaszczuk Government has recently announced reforms to body corporate legislation in Queensland following the October 2022 Housing Summit. The reforms aim to make it easier to sell and redevelop ageing or rundown community titles schemes. Accord
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Feeling Squeezed as a Mezzanine Lender? There Is Hope!
by Nathan Hardman The equitable doctrine of marshalling is a legal principle that is commonly overlooked. It allows a mezzanine lender to require a senior lender to satisfy their debt from another asset that the Senior Lender has security over inste
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Important Changes to the Fair Work Act</u></strong>
By Ben Schefe On 6 December 2022, the Fair Work Legislation Amendment (Secure Jobs, Better Pay) Act 2022 became law in Australia. You may also be aware that on 12 December 2022 the Anti‑Discrimination and Human Rights Legislation Amendment (Respect
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Unfair Preferences Demystified</strong>
If you operate a business, it is important to be aware of what can happen if you receive a payment from a customer who subsequently goes into liquidation or bankruptcy, and a liquidator or bankruptcy trustee tries to ‘claw back’ the payment on the ba
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MDL help Redlands locals sell family business
by Stephen Gibson A Redlands family, known for flying the Australian flag in front of their self-storage facility business, recently sold the commercial enterprise for a substantial amount. The long-time, Redlands residents built the self-storage
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Default Judgments – Your Rights
Article by Ben Schefe, Michael Mapp and Conor Harvey A default judgment is an order made by the Court against the defendant without having the need for a hearing/trial in court. This primarily occurs when the defendant does not take the appropriate
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Land Tax Changes Cancelled
By Stephen Gibson We have recently written about changes proposed by the Queensland Government, to the way in which land tax was to be calculated and charged in Queensland. On 30 September 2022 Queensland Premier Anastasia Palaszczuk announced that
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6 weeks to go! Don't miss the parenting arrangement deadlines for this Christmas
11 November 2022 cut-off date It’s time to make sure that you put in place your parenting arrangements for the Christmas period and December/January school holidays. The cut-off date to file court applications this year is 4.00pm on Friday 11 Novem
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