by mcauley_admin | Mar 7, 2023 | Publication
You may be eligible to make a public liability claim if the party responsible for your injury has been negligent by owing you a duty of care and thereafter breaching that duty of care. These types of claims can occur in places like shopping centres, walk-ways,...
by mcauley_admin | Mar 3, 2023 | Publication
Cosmetic surgery is booming in Australia. Australians now spend more on cosmetic procedures per capita than the United States. Every year Australians are consuming $350 million worth of Botox procedures, having 8,000 breast augmentation surgeries and 30,000...
by mcauley_admin | Mar 2, 2023 | Publication
Generally speaking it is best to avoid litigation and resolve disputes out of court. There is generally a significant time and cost investment in litigation with resources deployed in litigation better off invested elsewhere. If a dispute can be resolved out of...
by mcauley_admin | Feb 24, 2023 | Publication
Ms Filiposka has been awarded $828,554 in work injury damages proceedings claiming negligence against her employer, Coles Supermarkets Australia Pty Ltd, in respect to a back injury she sustained in an awkward lifting incident whilst working as the manager in the...
by mcauley_admin | Feb 22, 2023 | Publication
An executor generally has 12 months from the date of death to distribute the estate. This is known as “the executor’s year”. There can be reasons why an executor has been delayed or not distributed the estate within the timeframe referred to above. The law in New...
by mcauley_admin | Feb 22, 2023 | Publication
In NSW there is a concept of an ‘informal will’. Section 8 of the Succession Act 2006 (NSW) relates to a document that “purports to state the testamentary intentions of a deceased person” but “has not been executed…” In order to be an ‘informal will’,...
