Newsletter Articles

In October’s newsletter, I wrote about the recent decision of Fisher v Risk and Investment Advisors Australia Pty Ltd (ACN 104 922 394) and an investors right to be compensated as a result of negligent financial advice.

The Partners would like to congratulate Danielle Fitzgerald on her Admission as a Solicitor. Danielle recently completed her traineeship as a Solicitor and was admitted as a Legal Practitioner in the Supreme Court in Townsville on 30 January 2012. Danielle was born and raised in Mackay and continues her employment with Macrossan & Amiet as…

Over the last two years, residents of the Whitsunday and Mackay region have felt the impact of the various storms, cyclones and floods that have emerged during the wet season. After the events of the 2008 floods and the 2010 and 2011 cyclones it is not only essential that you have home building and contents…

The 30th January 2012 saw the Personal Property Securities Register (PPSR) “go live” across Australia providing a consolidated and national register for the searching, registering and releasing of securities relating to personal property. Given that the PPSR is a completely new system and the scale of the PPSR, there was bound to be some teething…

It is a common practice for most businesses to use websites for advertising and operational purposes. The benefit of purchasing a website is the recognisability it will already have on search engines. When starting an online business or creating a website, the first step is registering a domain name. A domain name is a web…

There are many different types of businesses which are now operated through some type of simple or complex franchise arrangement. In July last year, the rules and regulations in relation to Franchise Agreements changed. The Franchise Code of Conduct (the Code) is the industry code governing the realm of franchise arrangements as provided by the…

In an unusual case decided in November this year by the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Queensland, an owner of an unregistered motorcycle was ordered to pay over $1M to the Nominal Defendant (the State of Queensland). The Nominal Defendant stands in the place of a CTP Insurer (compulsory third party insurance taken…

How often do we hear the saying – “they don’t make them like they use to”? Have you recently purchased a product only to be disappointed by its quality or durability. In this article, we take a look at the Australian Consumer Law and the protection it offers to you as a consumer from faulty…