The entire jury in the trial of Bruce Lehrmann has been discharged after a juror brought a research paper on sexual assaults into the jury room. In the ACT, jurors are only used in cases where a person is accused of a serious crime. These cases often generate great...
If you own a car you would know that having a green slip is compulsory thanks to Compulsory Third Party (CTP) insurance. What many don’t know is CTP gives you more than just a green slip. The reformed NSW CTP scheme means that as of 1 December 2017, people who...
As of today (1 September 2021) the Family Court of Australia and the Federal Circuit Court of Australia will merge to become the Federal Circuit and Family Court of Australia (FCFCOA). The creation of the FCFCOA is the answer to calls for change to a system that has...
A series of recent decisions in NSW courts and tribunals have drawn attention to a legal debarkle (mis-spelling intended) – if you are the owner-occupier of property in a residential strata plan, can the owners corporation ban you from keeping a pet at your property?...
Pauperis v Pauperis, a recent decision from the NSW Supreme Court has considered when a person is deemed to have taken adverse possession of a property, and, when there are competing interests, which person will have better title at law. In the context of a dispute...
On Monday 25 May 2020, the Supreme Court of NSW upheld the long established principles of trust law which govern the use and distribution of trust money. In the high profile case relating to Celeste Barber’s bush fire appeal, the comedian established a Facebook...
