PPSA Articles

If you hire, rent or lease out goods changes to the Personal Property Securities Amendment Bill may affect you. The changes came into affect on 20 May 2017.

Since the introduction of the Personal Properties Securities Act 2009 (Cth) (‘PPSA’) there has been very little case law on how to interpret the PPSA which has left Australian courts to look to case law in other jurisdictions such as New Zealand and Canada. More recently, however there have been some Australian decisions that have…

The Whitsunday Tourism Awards were held at the Whitsunday Sailing Club at Airlie Beach on Saturday night the 19th October 2013.

We have in previous additions of our newsletter, highlighted the critical importance of registration in relation to the Personal Property Securities Act (PPSA) and the Personal Properties Security Register (PPSR).

According to Wikipedia a “double act” or “comedy duo” is a comic pairing in which humour is derived from the uneven relationship between two partners who usually have dramatically different personalities.

Recently, I was talking with a client having a general discussion about various things. The client asked me how Bob Porter was going.

Recently I dealt with a client who was involved in an ongoing arrangement with another person. The client did not consider that arrangement to be a “contract” because the terms of the arrangement were not committed to writing. In essence, he believed that in order to have a contract you had to have a formal…