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  • Warning: Increased Risk of Road Accidents on Long Weekends
    If you are a professional driver spending the majority of your time on the road, you would be aware that the risks of being involved in a motor vehicle accident greatly increase during long weekends and other holiday periods like Easter and Christmas. Walker Legal acts for professional drivers who have suffered an injury on the road to ensure that they receive their just entitlements to compensation for their injuries.
    Author: Steve Walker
    Firm: Walker Legal
    Date: September, 2009
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  • Asbestos: New Warnings for Home Renovation
    New warnings have been issued on a potential risk of exposure to asbestos with the breaking news that thousands of Australians who have renovated their homes and ripped up old carpets may have exposed themselves to deadly asbestos fibres. Experts have warned that asbestosis and mesothelioma is now being seen in an ever-increasing number of people whose only exposure to asbestos has occurred in the home during renovations.
    Author: Steve Walker
    Firm: Walker Legal
    Date: September, 2009
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  • Parramatta Local Multi-Court Complex Re-Opens

    The Parramatta Local Court multi-court complex will officially re-open on 13 July 2009 and Nyman Gibson Stewart (www.notguilty.com.au) are poised and ready to be the major force in criminal defence work at this busy court precinct.


    Author: Phil Stewart
    Firm: Nyman Gibson Stewart
    Date: June, 2009
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  • Making the Interlock Program Work for You
    The Alcohol Interlock Program is a court based program that was introduced in New South Wales in 2003. The program enables drivers convicted of certain major alcohol related offences to continue driving after a substantially reduced disqualification period if they obtain an Interlock Device and participate in the Program.

    Author: Jonathon Taylor
    Firm: Marbury Chambers
    Date: May, 2009
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  • UNLICENCED DRIVING OFFENCES
    Driving with a suspended, cancelled or disqualified licence is an increasingly common offence in NSW, and in fact in other states across Australia. It is occurring more frequently for a number of reasons but the two main reasons are the willingness of the RTA and the Sate Debut Recovery Office to suspend driver’s licences due to the non-payment of fines and also because the police are getting better at detecting at unlicenced driving.
    Author: Jonathan Taylor
    Firm: Jonathon Taylor - Barrister
    Date: November, 2008
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  • THE DEMERIT POINTS SCHEME
    The Demerit Points Scheme is a national program that allocates penalty points (demerits) for a range of driving offences. The scheme is designed to encourage safe and responsible driving. Along with financial penalties, demerit points provide a strong incentive to drive within the law.
    Author: Jonathan Taylor
    Firm: Jonathon Taylor - Barrister
    Date: October, 2008
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  • Claiming Compensation as a Victim of a Crime
    If you have been the victim of a violent crime including a sexual assault or molestation you may be able to seek compensation in the Victims of Crime Assistance Tribunal. This can include a lump sum payment up to $7500, counselling, loss of wages, medical bills and replacing damaged clothing.
    Author: Snodgrass Legal
    Firm: Snodgrass Legal
    Date: July, 2008
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  • Claiming Your Rightful Inheritance Under a Will
    When a person dies leaving a Will this should set out how all the property of that person (legally known as their Estate) is to be distributed.Many typical Wills leave property to a spouse or a partner, and then to children often in equal shares.
    Author: Snodgrass Legal
    Firm: Snodgrass Legal
    Date: July, 2008
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  • De facto and Same Sex Couple Property Rights
    When couples who have been in a de facto relationship, including same sex couples, decide to end their relationship issues of property division can arise.
    Author: Snodgrass Legal
    Firm: Snodgrass Legal
    Date: July, 2008
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  • Divorce and Property Rights
    When a married couple decides to separate issues of property division may arise. This commonly occurs, for example, when a couple has purchased property together such as a home.
    Author: Snodgrass Legal
    Firm: Snodgrass Legal
    Date: July, 2008
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  • A Goode thing Cowling is dead?
    On 15 December 2006 the Full Court of the Family Court of Australia delivered Judgment in the case of Goode and Goode [1].
    Author: Christopher Dimock
    Firm: Dimocks Family Lawyers
    Date: June, 2007
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  • CGT Rolls Over for BFAs
    With effect from Tuesday, 12 December 2006, we can expect greater use to be made of financial agreements as a means of resolving property disputes between married and de facto partners.
    Author: Christopher Dimock
    Firm: Dimocks Family Lawyers
    Date: December, 2006
    Times viewed: 631
  • Testamentary Promises and the Family Provision Act
    Frequently people are promised they will be provided for in a will only to find that promise challenged after the deceased’s death. This often results in the will being disputed.
    Author: Graeme Heckenberg
    Firm: Heckenberg Associates Solicitors
    Date: December, 2006
    Times viewed: 709
  • Collaborative Family Lawyers - What Women (and Men) Want!
    Marriage is a strange phenomenon that happens to human beings. And the best part is, both the unmarried and the married are unhappy, though for radically opposite reasons, one for not being married, and the other for being married
    Author: Silvio Auditore
    Firm: Auditore Specialist Family Lawyers
    Date: November, 2006
    Times viewed: 635
  • Fund Management Fees - damages in personal injury claims
    The recent High Court decision in the appeal from the Queensland Court of Appeal in the case of Willett v Futcher [2005] HCA 47 has expounded upon the definition of the head of damages that may be claimed as financial management fees.
    Author: Ian Paul
    Firm: Polemic Forensic
    Date: September, 2006
    Times viewed: 441
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