Jamesklegal

22/05/2023

The case of Issa is a reminder that if there are caveats on a title, they need to be searched to see what the issue is and that it may be very risky to settle the buy/sell if the caveats haven't been withdrawn before settlement.

Australasian Legal Information Institute (AustLII), a joint facility of UTS and UNSW Faculties of Law.

24/01/2023

We are closed tomorrow for Australia Day and will also be closed on Friday the 27th of January.

27/12/2022

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year.
Our office re-opens on Monday the 16th of January.
Stay safe.

28/02/2022

This is our back stairs this morning. The floor level is nearly two metres above the water level and everything is dry.

09/04/2020

Update on rents in the sars-covid environment.

Prime Minister Scott Morrison’s moratorium on evictions has created much confusion for tenants, landlords and real estate agents. This explainer reveals what you need to know.

22/03/2020

We are open but we need to take care of ourselves and you.
Please ring us on 07 32022700 and we can discuss whether you need to come in or not, otherwise, as the medical specialists tell us, please stay home unless absolutely necessary.
Thank you.

27/02/2020

Don't think you can disparage someone using a false name on google, because a court may require google to disclose what identification tags it has for the person. Its likely facebook will be confronted with this too.

Melbourne gangland lawyer Zarah Garde-Wilson is suing technology behemoth Google in a bid to unmask an online reviewer who she suspects is actually a legal competitor.

27/02/2020

Beware what you say in any form of multi person media, even texts.

The legal risks of defaming someone via text message have been laid bare in a WA case which saw a man awarded $8000 after being called a f---head by a former friend.

16/07/2019

Great article, but will anything be done?

Australia's financial system might be stable, but its participants have spent decades ripping off customers while regulators sat in silence.

14/03/2019

As with the failure to do their job in the banking sector, now its the franchising sector. Once upon a time, Government appointed regulators answered to a Government department and a minister was responsible. What happened to that?

The 354-page parliamentary report is a withering indictment of a sector that has been allowed to do the wrong thing by its franchisees for years.

05/02/2019

Hopefully, this post Royal Commission compensation scheme may bring some justice to the victims of falsified loan applications and of the Banks failure to vet them, but there's no time to waste as it appears the 'window' will only be open for 12 months and apply only to loans made after 1 January 2008.

The Morrison government has promised to establish a compensation scheme paid for by the financial services industry as it seeks to avoid damage from the banking royal commission.

30/11/2018

A piece on ASIC's responses to various matters of bank misconduct, written by Michael West.

Are the victims of bank crime to blame for not being educated? Michael West investigates where the money has gone from corporate law enforcement and discovers the banks have been getting tax deductions