by mcauley_admin | Nov 13, 2022 | Publication
Hospitals are often under resourced and doctors and nurses are being required to work onerous hours under significant stress. The law in medical negligence plays an important role in ensuring that each individual is duly compensated but also provides a financial...
by mcauley_admin | Nov 10, 2022 | Publication
Who is to blame for a collapsed balcony of a leased property? The managing agent of the property? The tenant? The landlord? These are difficult questions and the answer will often depend on the circumstances of each case. A landlord has a duty to ensure residential...
by mcauley_admin | Nov 8, 2022 | Publication
Mediation is a process where an independent person (called the mediator) assists parties to a dispute to reach an agreed resolution. The parties agree who will be the mediator. The exception to this is where there is a court-annexed mediation, where the Court...
by mcauley_admin | Nov 3, 2022 | Publication
Properties are often owned by a number of persons or entities as tenants in common. It can arise that one or more owners wish to sell the property and others do not. Under section 66G of the Conveyancing Act 1919, where a property is held in co-ownership the...
by mcauley_admin | Oct 31, 2022 | Publication
McAuley Lawyers is pleased to announce that Bernard McAuley is now an Accredited Specialist in Personal Injury. The Law Society of NSW has accredited Bernard as specially competent in personal injury after a rigorous assessment program throughout 2022. Only a...
by mcauley_admin | Oct 10, 2022 | Publication
Nervous shock is a historic term derived under English law which refers to psychiatric/mental illness or injury inflicted upon a person by intentional or negligent actions or omissions of another. Who can bring a nervous shock claim? In NSW, nervous shock claims can...
