7 Aug 2020 Employment and safety Update on COVID-19 border closures - implications for employers and employees The unprecedented COVID-19 pandemic has seen all states and territories impose border and movement restrictions.
5 Aug 2020 Transport and logistics Corporate and commercial Banking and finance Get on board - bitesize legal insights for the transport sector Get on board - bitesize legal insights for the transport sector
31 Jul 2020 Property Existing residential construction projects and developments targeted by new regulation The recent Residential Apartment Buildings (Compliance and Enforcement Powers) Act 2020 (NSW) provides that from 1 September 2020 developers of residential apartment buildings may be subject to...
31 Jul 2020 Property New rating tool for developers The NSW Government and Building Commissioner David Chandler OAM have created a New Rating Tool for Developers. The tool has been created and will be managed by data company Equifax.
31 Jul 2020 Property Residential building targeted by strict regulation Developers, builders and designers need to be aware that the NSW Building Commissioner is cracking down on faulty practices with a new era of strict regulation.
30 Jul 2020 Property Monthly Property Industry Update This month's property industry update brings you a collection of articles from across the property industry for the month of July.
29 Jul 2020 Insurance Professional sport and the dangerous recreational activity defence In Singh bhnf Ambu Kanwar v Lynch [2020] NSWCA 152, the New South Wales Court of Appeal considered whether the dangerous recreational activity defence applies in the context of a professional horse race.
27 Jul 2020 Aged Care Paid pandemic leave - implications for employers and employees in the aged care sector A Full Bench of the Fair Work Commission has determined to vary the Aged Care Award to provide for two weeks of paid pandemic leave
27 Jul 2020 Planning, infrastructure and environment Interim Report recommends reform to duplicative, inefficient and costly Environment Protection ... This article concerns the recent publication of the Interim Report of the Independent Review of the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999 (Cth) (EPBC Act).
27 Jul 2020 Planning, infrastructure and environment Application to revive a lapsed development permit dismissed as the Court lacked jurisdiction to ... The Planning and Environment Court has dismissed an application in pending proceeding seeking declarations and orders intended to re-enliven a lapsed development permit even though the Council was not opposed to the....