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Terms and conditions are essential to any person running a business

It is important to understand whether a redundancy is a genuine redundancy, as defined by the law, as this can have significant consequences

It is crucial that Your Will and other testamentary documents are kept in a safe location, which your loved ones will be able to access when the time comes.

There are two main categories of legal action you might take against someone who makes a hurtful statement about you. Here’s a short guide to what these terms all actually mean under Australian law.

There are a number of federal and South Australian laws which prohibit various types of discrimination in workplaces.

It was with great sadness that members of our firm gathered with a large number of members of the legal profession, and members of the family of Brian Withers on 22 April 2021, to farewell Brian at his funeral and to honour his legacy in the law.

In the 1990s, Johnston Withers Lawyers (through former director and now special counsel Richard Bradshaw) along with Paul Heywood-Smith QC (at the time junior counsel and, prior to that, one of the Johnston Withers Lawyers’ directors) acted in a highly influential and long-running defamation case: Chakravarti v Advertiser Newspapers Ltd.

The High Court Decision in Commercial Bank of Australia Ltd v Amadio forced banks to behave more ethically in the future management of mortgages.

Under a commercial lease, a landlord has a right to distrain goods in premises for outstanding rent. This right entitles a landlord (or a person lawfully authorised by the landlord) to enter the premises, seize goods on the premises and to sell them by public auction for the best price that can be obtained in order to satisfy any outstanding rent due to the landlord. The procedure is governed by the Landlord and Tenant Act 1936.