Litigation constitutes an undesirable risk to most businesses. It can be disruptive and costly in monetary terms and to your time.
Our disputes lawyers are able to pre-empt and extinguish the threat of litigation before the risk arises through strategic legal advice.
Where litigation is a realistic possibility, we are able to effectively negotiate with the other party where appropriate in order to secure your position in terms of costs if it is necessary for the matter to proceed to trial, and potentially avoid the need for the time and expense of litigation by achieving an early commercial settlement.
If however litigation has become unavoidable, our disputes lawyers can react effectively and vigorously and have a broad domestic and international knowledge base to deal with the various issues which may arise. We act in all Australian Courts and Tribunals in relation to all types of business litigation as well personal disputes.
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Use this Deed of Settlement and Release to settle any dispute by way of a single payment between the disputing parties. Includes a full release of all claims and can be used whether or not court proceedings have begun. Suitable for settling any dispute, including in debt recovery and insolvency matters.
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The Federal Court of Australia has made the first reported orders under the new s.115A of the Copyright Act 1958 (Cth) by requiring numerous Australian carriage service providers to disable access[1], for up to 3 years[2], to various websites whose “primary purpose” is the infringement or facilitation of infringement of
Intro If a company owes one or more debts which are due and payable to a creditor and which remain outstanding, it is possible that the creditor may decide to serve a statutory demand on the debtor company. The statutory demand may require the debtor company to either pay the
Employers who wish to sponsor skilled employees from overseas are, in summary, required under the subclass 457 scheme to provide terms and conditions which are at least equivalent to those which an Australian citizen or permanent resident would achieve performing the same work at the same location. This is an
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