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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...

When someone dies unexpectantly, the media often say that “a report will be prepared for the Coroner”. But what does the Coroner do?  And what are the powers of the Coroner? What does the Coroner do? The Coroner investigates certain kinds of deaths, suspected...

An important part of running Court cases is maximising the chances of your opponent paying your legal costs. Recovery of legal costs A successful party to litigation, in NSW, generally only recovers, at best, 60% to 70% of their incurred legal costs. However outlined...