• Discrimination of facebook:Banning social networking sites at work may not protect employees
• Internet Publication: It takes two to publish, and more can't be assumed
• Photos as evidence: How the courts interpret the picture
• Travel restrictions: When the tax office can stop you leaving the country
• Online help in family break-ups: www.familyseparation.humanservices.gov.au
• Email evidence and the paperless trail: Making a contract by email legal and avoiding forgery
• Visas: New emphases on refusals and cancellations on character grounds
• Limitations on redundancy: Changes to rules on unfair dismissal
• End of life: Enforcing your wishes with an advance care directive

2.    Newsletter No. 1 of 2010

Topics Covered in this Issue

• Surviving a Statutory Demand: How to have one set aside
• False Advertising: Court remedies can be inventive
• Employment Contract: It may outlast the relationship
• Resisting a Liquidator's Claim: How to hang on to payments made to you
• Franchises:Breaking the rules but not the agreement
• Confidentiality: Potential sub-contractor sues tenderer for breach
• Legal Action on Climate Change: Public authorities at risk of being sued
• When the Tax Office wants a Cut: Housing a family member can come at a cost

• Information Champion: Major reform of freedom of information laws
• Illegal Downloads: Internet service provider not held responsible
• Estate Executors: Know your tax obligations
• Voting Rights for Vision Impaired: Secret voting right
• Register Trust Deeds: Stamp duty costs if the deed is lost
• Builders' Payments: Residential restriction on security of payment law
• Tender Bids: When price can change after closing date
• Resale Royalties: Sellers - and buyers - of art works may have to pay
• Third Party Liability: A 'reasonable response' to risk of criminal act
• Mortgage Trap: Stamp duty payable on vendor finance

• New Law on Consumer Contracts: Unfair contract terms invalid
• Wills: What happens if I don't leave a will?
• Positive Outcomes: Considering mental illness of offenders
• Insolvency: You can serve a bankruptcy notice by email
• Special Disability Trusts: Proposals to expand beneficiaries and uses of funds
• Fraud in Tender: Limitation caps won't limit liability
• Credit History: How can business comply with privacy laws?
• Poor Reputation: Evidence after the defamation
• Raising Rent Deceit: Shopping centre landlord's misleading behaviour
• Intellectual Property: Hard questions on the internet

• Compensation for Rescuers: Aftermath of accident causes mental harm
• Self-Managed Super: New law removes special trustee status
• Commercial Offices: Sellers or lessors must disclose energy efficiency
• Drafting the Contract: Interpretation is more than words in isolation
• Tax Shelters and Schemes: Alerts and schemes
• Not Just the Money: Suspension of employee a loss of 'non-pecuniary attributes"
• Key Changes: New guardianship laws
• Hybrid Dispute Resolution: Getting the best of both worlds
• Aboriginal Cultural Heritage: Improved protection and harsher penalties
• Duty of Care: Managing agents and caretakers responsible
• Purple Winning Colour: Another colour is trade marked

• Rising Seas: Protecting the beachhouse
• Wills: Can I change my mind?
• Early Guilty Plea: How are sentencing discounts decided?
• Paying Tax on Employee Shares: Clearing up the rules
• Tenders Pitfall: Beware of creating risk claims
• Safety Slip: Compensation could be harder to win
• Maintenance: Do I have to pay to support my children or spouse?
• Landlord and Tenant: Renting laws have been rewritten
• Breaking the Contract: When employee can't just walk away

7.    Newsletter No. 2 of 2011

Topics Covered in this Issue

• New Consumer Law: Mandatory reporting
• Court Orders: An inconvenient truth
• Evidence: Signatures, squiggles and electronic signatures
• Neighbours: Building good fences may take negotiation
• No Client Confidentiality: Employer's right to view lawyer's email
• Easier Supression Orders: Protecting people living with HIV
• Sub-contractors: Gain new right to earmark funds owed to contractor
• Financial Reports: Company officer shares liability for failure to lodge
• Adverse Actions: Broader protections withstand the test
• Not Your Alter Ego: Private companies are tax identities

8.    Newsletter No. 3 of 2011

Topis Covered in this Issue

• Social Networking: Can you control it?
• Facebook: Liability for publication
• Illusory Savings: Misleading two-price comparisons under attack
• Sham Contracting: Two parts to employee test involves intuition
• Your Will: Where is it?
• Cloud Computing: Legal issues for service contracts
• Family Trusts: Losing out on land tax threshold
• Mediation: Court is not the only way to resolve a dispute
• Green Retrofits: New environmental upgrade agreements
• Overseas Jaunts: Tax Office review of conferene expenses

9.    Newsletter No. 4 of 2011

Topics Covered in this Issue

• Directors' Duties: Approving financial statements a serious matter
• Planning Ahead: What is an enduring guardian?
• Personal Information: Lessons from recent privacy violations
• Handling a Tax Debt: Identifying technichal issues is a key
• Strata Law: Court puts limite on insurer taking it to excess
• Disputed Debt: Company not saved from insolvency
• OH&S: When is it safe to dismiss employees?
• Astroturfing: Misleading advertising on social media
• Carbon Price Gouging: Prevention is better than cure
• Road Rules: Heavy vehicle signage found to be outside the rules.

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