22-Jun-10
The Personal Property Securities (“PPS”) regime establishes a national registration regime for security interests in personal property. Amongst other impacts, businesses which ordinarily rely on ‘retention of title’ arrangements to protect their interest in goods supplied will need to change the way they do things and register their security interests on this new national register to protect their interests. ...more
02-Mar-10
Small business employers (those with less than 20 employees) may soon be relieved of the costly and time consuming burden of paying superannuation guarantee contributions into numerous superannuation funds. ...more
31-Aug-09
Telecommunications Access disputes are exempted from Trade Practices Act Part 3A and are dealt with in Part 11C. As part of the Federal Government's April 2009 announcement of the National Broadband Network, options for reform of the telecommunications competition framework were advanced. ...more
28-Aug-09
The High Court has reversed an earlier decision which effectively gave the Tax Office a significant advantage over other unsecured creditors in event of liquidation. ...more
24-Aug-09
Trade Practices Act Part 3A sets the regime for the accessing of essential facilities (excluding telecommunications) by a two step process involving determination whether a facility is "essential" and then setting out an arbitration process when the parties are unable to agree on access arrangements or pricing. ...more
06-Aug-09
Lewis Holdway Lawyers’ sister company Kearley Lewis is pleased to announce the launch of their new online credit checking site, a great step forward in managing your credit risk. ...more
09-Jul-09
The Attorney-General, Robert McClelland, yesterday announced that the introduction of Personal Property Securities Reform would be delayed to May 2011 instead of the original start date in May 2010. Lewis Holdway's submission on the Personal Property Securities Reform recommended, amongst other things, that the starting date for reform be delayed. ...more
17-Apr-09
Trade Practices Act s155 allows the ACCC to issue notices requiring the production of documents or the giving of evidence where the ACCC is investigating possible breaches of competition laws. ...more