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On 11 November 2022, the NSW State government passed the Property Tax (First Home Buyer Choice) Act 2022 (“the Act”) which provides first home buyers with alternatives when paying stamp duty.

The Act provides first home buyers with the choice of either:

1. paying stamp duty at the time of p...

The concept of “misleading and deceptive conduct” doesn’t only arise in the context of consumer law, requiring a seller to ensure that it does not mislead or deceive, or engage in conduct which is likely to mislead or deceive, its consumers in relation to the product or service that it is selling.  ...

If you are appointed as a substitute attorney under a Power of Attorney, ensure that you are validly entitled to act if the first appointed attorney is unable or unwilling to so act, and that you are acting within the scope of your designed power.  These issues, and more, were considered by the Supr...

 If you are a retail tenant, and you wish to sell your business (and assign your lease to the business purchaser), or for any other reason, you wish to assign or transfer your lease to another party, then depending on the terms of your lease, you may need to obtain the prior consent of the landlord....

As you can imagine, when entering into a legal transaction, whether it be a lease, a contract or a Deed, it is vital that your correct legal name is used.

Whilst it might seem obvious, the reason for this is to ensure that the person named in the documents can be easily identified as the person cla...

The 2022 edition of the Contract for the Sale and Purchase of Land has just been released by the Law Society of New South Wales, with the amendments to the previous edition mostly prompted by the commencement of the Conveyancing (Sale of Land) Regulation 2022 on 1 September 2022.

The latest edition...

1. The laws relating to unfair dismissal attempt to balance the needs of the business and the needs of employees, and establish procedures for dealing with unfair dismissal that are quick, flexible and informal, and address the needs of employers and employees. The aim is to ensure that a “fair go al...

Not only can an estate challenge be made by someone who is a blood relative of the deceased (so long as they satisfy one of the categories of relatives set out in the definition of “eligible person”, as defined in section 57 of the Succession Act 2006 (NSW)), but it can also be made by someone who i...

Business to business contracts are often "standard form contracts", meaning that one party will have a pre-drafted the contract to make it easier and simpler (and often quicker) to provide the contract to the other party, such as contracts between a supplier and its customers.  Sometimes the reverse...

The Supreme Court Court of Appeal has handed down its decision in relation to an L-shaped easement, granting one property owner (#8) a right of way over the rear and side of the neighbouring property (#6) to enable access to the street.  This right of way in Birchgrove (inner Sydney) was initially e...

If you’re a director of a company, you may very well have been asked to sign a personal guarantee, to guarantee the company’s obligations under a contract – for example, the payment of invoices to a supplier, or the payment of rent to a landlord.  Sometimes, the company and the personal guarantor wi...

Typically, when selling property, the deposit which is paid at the time of exchange is held by the deposit holder, usually the selling agent, until settlement has taken place, at which time it is released to the vendor.  In some instances, it may be released to the vendor prior to settlement if the ...