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Stephen Page
In this video, Accredited Family Law Specialist and Award-Winning Fertility Lawyer, Stephen Page discusses the importance of putting together a risk management plan if you’re in an unsafe relationship.
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ABLR Vol 49, Part 2 is out and features five excellent contributions:
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Bruce Provan
Once, the far majority of family law disputes ended in protracted court proceedings, now it’s completely different. At Page Provan, we’re an early resolution focused law firm. In this video, Accredited Family Law Specialist, Bruce Provan discusses the range of options
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Stephen Page
In the latest edition of the Australian Family & Fertility Law Podcast, Stephen Page talks with Roman Deauna, Migration Agent about his amazing journey into surrogacy.
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Stephen Page
In this video, Page Provan Family & Fertility Lawyers’ Director Stephen Page shares his 25 years of experience helping clients with their Surrogacy matters.
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Stephen Page
Cindy Wasser from Hope Springs Fertility is a leading Canadian surrogacy lawyer. A mum through surrogacy, Cindy has helped many Australian intended parents over many years with their Canadian surrogacy journeys.
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Intro: You’re listening to the Australian Family and Fertility Law
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Bruce Provan
In this episode of the Australian Family & Fertility Law Podcast, Accredited Family Law Specialist, Bruce Provan talks with Mediator, Farley Tolpen on why and how mediation works in resolving family law disputes.
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Intro: You’re listening to the Australian Family
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Stephen Page
Dr. Said Daneshmand is an internationally recognized fertility specialist with extensive experience in providing third-party reproductive services. In his second year of studying medicine, he had a profound experience that changed his life forever.
Intro: You’re listening to the Australian Family
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Stephen Page
In this podcast, Richard Westoby discusses his own personal surrogacy journey and a complete career change that he never could have anticipated.
Transcript
Intro: You’re listening to the Australian Family and Fertility Law Podcast. Here’s your host, Stephen Page.
Stephen Page: Good
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Stephen Page
Fertility law attorney Rich Vaughn combined his passion for family formation and founded one of the most successful and best-known law firms in the world focusing on assisted reproductive technology law.
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Stephen Page: Good day. My name is Stephen Page, and
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noreply@blogger.com (Mike Terceiro)
We have some fantastic news about the next phase of the ugg case – we will be filing an appeal to the US Supreme Court.
The Morrison Government and Attorney General Michaelia Cash have come to the party with a grant of legal financial assistance of USD $150,000 under the Special
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noreply@blogger.com (Mike Terceiro)
FAIRFAX MEDIA PUBLICATIONS PTY LTD v DYLAN VOLLER NATIONWIDE NEWS PTY LIMITED v DYLAN VOLLER AUSTRALIAN NEWS CHANNEL PTY LTD v DYLAN VOLLER [2021] HCA 27
The High Court has handed down a significant decision today on the liability of publishers for third-party user comments. As stated in the High Court
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noreply@blogger.com (Mike Terceiro)
Just completed a great free short leadership course through UNSW for UNSW alumni. Keep an eye out for it next year!
Type:LearningCost:FreeLearn to Lead with UNSW 2021Issued by UNSWLearn to Lead with UNSW is a specially curated short course for UNSW alumni on the topic of leadership. Facilitated by UNSW academics, alumni
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noreply@blogger.com (Mike Terceiro)
I was watching the 2021 Mason Conversation with Her Excellency the Honorable Margaret Beazley AC QC recently.
I was struck by one of the first things she said. She was asked whether she remembers receiving any advice from the former Chief Justice Anthony Mason during her time on the bench. She
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Stephen Page
In this video, Page Provan Fertility & Family Lawyers Director and Accredited Family Law Specialist, Stephen Page reflects on what his first domestic client taught him.
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Stephen Warne
Kinkhead v Rositani [2021] VMC 009 is a case about crash and bash litigation, a field of endeavour for lawyers which is fertile as a generator of professional misconduct prosecutions. That is because the Victorian Legal Services Commissioner has a fascination with the lawyers who act for
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Stephen Warne
Di Lorenzo v The Magistrates’ Court of Victoria [2021] VSC 475 was a case in which the Supreme Court spent 2 hearing days on a judicial review of a costs order worth $5,000. One paragraph of it piqued my interest, about the interpretation of provisions
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noreply@blogger.com (William Stark)
1. In Price v Spoor, [2021] HCA 20, the High Court handed down a decision on 23 June 2021 about whether the parties to a mortgage could agree to contract out of the operation of the Queensland equivalent of the Limitation of Actions Act, 1958, and whether such an agreement
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Cameron Charnley
The dispute in Kennedy v Proctor[1] involved, at its heart, a simple question: had a competition horse, purchased by one friend for another and claimed to have been a gift, in fact been a gift? Of greater significance to appellate practice, however, the case demonstrates the difficulty in seeking to
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Stephen Warne
In the last post, Justice Quigley extended time in which to seek taxation under the Legal Profession Uniform Law (Vic) in unusual circumstances, by consent. Curiously, a funny little case from NSW provides an echo: Stoltz v Peter Skidmore of Phoenix Legal Consulting Pty Limited [2021] NSWSC 1063 (funny choice of
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Stephen Warne
Davey v Costanzo Lawyers Ltd [2021] VSC 449 is episode # c. 898 in my series about suits for fees, ‘Many a Slip Twixt Cup and Lip’.
A family law firm whose website modestly explains that they are the ‘best family lawyers’ sued its former client for professional costs and barristers’
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Over the last few days three decisions relating to GST have been handed down. One by the Full Federal Court on the GST treatment of gambling supplies (allowing the Commissioner’s appeal) and two by the Tribunal, one on development leases and whether excess GST has been “passed on” (partially in
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Stephen Page
In this video, Accredited Family Law Specialist and Multi-Award Winning Lawyer, Stephen Page discusses the inevitable dance of negotiation when it comes to effectively resolving family law disputes.
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Matthew Townsend
The benefits of an early offer of compromise in restrictive covenant proceedings were again shown in Manderson v Smith Anor (Costs) S ECI 2020 03378 when Efthim AsJ upheld an offer to walk away as being a genuine compromise in … Continue reading →
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Liz Bodey
The Full Court of the Federal Court of Australia has reaffirmed that a registered trade mark can only be infringed by the primary user of a trade mark and there is no concept of authorisation of infringement recognised under Australian trade mark law.
Background
PDP Capital manufactures and sells
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Liz Bodey
The Board of Directors of the Dubai International Financial Centre (DIFC) Authority recently issued the DIFC Intellectual Property Regulations (IP Regulations). The IP Regulations took effect on 5 July 2021 and were issued pursuant to the DIFC Intellectual Property Law, DIFC Law No. of 2019 (IP Law).
In
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Stephen Page
How and why you have split-up is a very important question. In this video, Accredited Family Law Specialist, Stephen Page discusses the importance of the answer to this question on everything that follows!
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ABC Radio
The Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal has found that landlords can evict tenants for non-payment of rent during the big Victorian lockdown of 2020. It’s a ruling that could affect thousands of vulnerable renters. And, should doctors, lawyers and other professionals be able to sue someone who posts a
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What’s in a name? Well, consider Marion Robert Morrison or Norma Jeane Mortenson. Neither has quite the same ring to it as John Wayne or Marilyn Monroe, right?
And while you’re not trying to make it in Hollywood, your choice of business name matters too. That’s because a business name
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On 15 of April 2021, the Federal Court of Australia ordered two company directors to compensate their customers personally, a claim that has rarely been substantiated in Australian law. The pair were also ordered to pay a substantial fine and were disqualified from managing a company for three (3) years.
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A rental guarantee can seem like the icing on the cake when you’re a property investor. You get guaranteed rental income for an agreed period if you can’t find a tenant for your off-the-plan apartment. What could possibly go wrong?
Unfortunately, the deal might not be quite as attractive as
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If you’re involved in the Australian business world, you probably have already heard about the Director Identification Number scheme that is slowly coming into fruition. But what exactly is this scheme, and how does it affect directors of businesses? We’ll break down what the DIN scheme is, how it affects
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Many contacts contain a clause, often called either a No Verbal Variations or No Oral Modifications (NOM) clause, intended to prevent future “nod and handshake” waivers of the terms of that contract, even when willingly entered into by both parties.
The intention behind such clauses is to protect both parties
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In response to COVID-19, Parliament provided temporary relief measures through an amendment in the Corporations Act 2001 (Cth) (‘Corporations Act’).
The amendment allowed electronic signatures of documents, virtual meetings, and electronic notice of those meetings. It was expected that these amendments would be extended, but now the pre-COVID requirements of
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It can be a seductive idea. Rather than starting a hospitality business from scratch, why not skip the start-up stage altogether by buying into a franchise?
And it’s a business model with a long illustrious history. Albert Singer developed the first franchise contract to help him sell more sewing machines
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Signing the contract of sale isn’t the last stage of a home purchase. Rather, it’s the beginning of a process that only ends on settlement day. This is the day when the agreed purchase price is paid to the seller and the buyer takes legal possession of the property.
Unfortunately,
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ABC Radio
As the COVID19 pandemic grips NSW, how do we balance the rights of an individual with those of the broader community? And the Victorian Ombudsman has released a report detailing human rights breaches, many dealing with ensuring compliance with COVID 19 public orders.
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Matthew Townsend
In 2011, in Zwierlein v Baw Baw SC [2011] VCAT 74, the Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal refused an application for a three lot subdivision on land in Warragul after finding it was “unable to say that a beneficiary of … Continue reading →
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ABC Radio
This week, the WA parliament is debating new child protection legislation. Meanwhile a program called Aboriginal Family Led Decision Making is being piloted. Will new laws and programs reduce the vast over representation of Indigenous children in out-of-home care, currently seventeen times more likely than non-Indigenous children?
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noreply@blogger.com (Paul Miller)
I published a guide to issuing amendment/discharge demands in May 2017 – you can read that article HERE.
The PPSR has now issued a sample amendment guide themselves (available HERE) as well as a guide to its dispute process (available HERE).
They have also launched a new amendment statement form “to help
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ABC Radio
In the USA there is a growing number of legal disputes involving employees, consumers and university students who are challenging mandatory vaccination requirements. And new research suggests that virtual reality headsets could help jurors reach fairer verdicts in complex criminal trials.
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ABC Radio
If you earn a million dollars from selling drugs and are convicted under proceeds of crime legislation, you don’t get to keep it. But what if that conviction is quashed years later? Some of the most notorious figures in the gangland era are heading back to courts to appeal their
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Despite your best intentions, business disputes can happen – whether it’s caused by a supplier not meeting their obligations, a late payment from a client, or a disagreement with an employee or customer.
And while it can be tempting to say ‘see you in court’, no one wants a lawsuit
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Property in Victoria can be expensive. So one way of entering the market faster is to pool funds with family or friends. Unfortunately, things can get difficult when one co-owner wants to sell and the other doesn’t.
When this happens, can you force a sale?
The two different ways to
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Victoria boasts a world-class hospitality scene. But there’s always room for one more venue where patrons can enjoy a quick beer after work or a cheeky cocktail … or three.
However, opening a new bar, restaurant or cafe can come with a checklist as long as your arm. You don’t
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Matthew Townsend
In Rose Burwood Pty Ltd v Whitehorse CC [2021] VCAT 755, the Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal adopted a potentially inexpensive means of construing a building materials covenant. The parties appear to have made written submissions to the Tribunal and … Continue reading →