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The word ‘lawyer’ is the generic term for a legal practitioner and can include solicitors, barristers and even judges and magistrates. A ‘litigator’ is a lawyer who practices in the area of court work and can include advocacy. A ‘litigator’ can include a solicitor or...

A director of a company has a range of legal duties including to make sure the company complies with general and specific laws relating to the company’s operations. The general duties of a director are set out in the Corporations Act 2001 (Commonwealth). A director...

TPD stands for ‘Total and Permanent Disability’. Many insurance and superannuation policies have a total and permanent disability insurance component. If you have TPD insurance, and have suffered an injury or illness, you may be entitled to make a claim on the...

What is the quickest and cheapest way of recovering a bad debt? What are the best techniques for recovering a bad debt? How do you maximise your chances of recovering a bad debt? If communication has broken down with a person or business who owes you money, it is...

People often do not realise that they have a personal injury claim. There are all sorts of potential claims.  Perhaps you were involved in a motor accident or a work accident.  Or you suffered injury at a public or private place.  Or you were on the...

A Will can be challenged for all sorts of reasons.  For instance, a Will may be a fraud.  The person making the Will may have been the subject of undue influence.  Or perhaps the person making the Will did not have the mental capacity to make a Will....

Approximately half of Australians do not have a Will, according to the NSW Trustee & Guardian.  This figure is almost certainly an underestimation.  A more realistic figure is that 70% of Australians do not have a Will. There are various consequences of...

A contract can be ‘illegal’ because it is prohibited by legislation or it infringes a rule of public policy. Prohibited by Legislation In order for a contract to be ‘illegal’ because it is prohibited by legislation, the contract must be expressly or impliedly...

There are many ways to challenge the validity of a Will.  If a Will is successfully challenged, a Will can, in effect, be set aside or varied. The main ways of challenging a Will are to allege undue influence, fraud, forgery, lack of testamentary capacity and/or...

In simple terms, proportionate liability is a system which limits some types of civil liability. By way of illustration, if a manufacturer and a distributor are both responsible for faulty software, a system of proportionate liability might limit each of the...