Lease Law

Do you rent a commercial property as the Landlord or the Tenant you need to know the latest. VCAT has just issued a directive to advise that if a Landlord is required to make good issues with respect to their property because essential safety measures require fixing....

Estate Planning

Where there’s a will there’s a way. I am often asked by people about the importance of doing their will and I always respond with the advice that even if you do not think that you own anything you must have  will. My will is important. Administration and Probate Act...

No such thing as a simple will

A recent decision of the Full Court of the Supreme Court of Tasmania in Calvert v Badenach [2015] TASFC 8 is a good reminder for lawyers preparing wills that there is no such thing as a simple will.  The case concerned a professional negligence claim against a...

Cooling Off – Sale of real estate

Selling and Buying land is always a complex business made even more difficult when the Supreme Court sends a curve ball. So sending a notice to the agent is not giving a notice and it must be given to the vendor. Read on… Russell Cox, Victoria’s leading writer on...

New Building Laws

Have you ever found yourself looking at a new building contract and wondering what it all means? Next door to my place here in Silverwood’s a new home is being built and I went to have a chat to the painter and walked inside to see that the concrete slab already had...