DW Reports

DW Report - Summer 2012
In this report:
  • SA Small Business Commissioner
  • Happy Holidays for the Hospitality Industry?
  • Unconscionable Conduct: New Laws Take Effect
  • A Consideration of Reasonableness
  • Road Rules
  • Self-Managed Superannuation Funds
  • Work Health & Safety Bill Update
  • Enduring Attorneys & Guardians
  • WorkCover
  • Franchise Industry Update
  • Staff Profile: Lisa Dowdy
DW Report - Spring 2011
In this report:
  • Company Profile: WINESTATE
  • Redundancy
  • Fair Work Ombudsman Changes Tack
  • Personal Properties Security
  • How, and Why, to Avoid Litigation
  • Can Third Parties Benefit from Contracts?
  • Family Farm Transfers
  • Franchise Businesses: To Lease or Not to Lease
  • Franchising Report - National Franchise Convention & Awards 2011
  • Motor Vehicle - Rego Worries
  • International Lawyers World Cup - HOWZAT! Cricket in the Caribbean
  • WorkCover
  • Self-Managed Superannuation Funds
  • Warning - New Anti-avoidance Provisions
  • Staff Profile: Madeleine Crawford
DW Report - Winter 2011
In this report:
  • Unique Insight Now Available in Personal Injury Law
  • Shaping Your Brand
  • Use Restraint in Restraints of Trade
  • The Principle of Privilege
  • A "Sleeper" for Directors Liabilities?
  • Bearing the Brunt in FWO Prosecutions
  • CTP Excess
  • Litigation Searches
  • Extinguishment of Rights-Of-Way
  • WorkCover Update 2011
  • More on WorkCover
  • New R&D Tax Credit
  • Staff Profile: Mark Gowans
DW Report - Autumn 2011
In this report:
  • DW Workplace Solutions: Introducing New Workplace Injury Managment Consultancy
  • National Business Names Register
  • Employer Alert
  • Lessons Learned the Hard Way
  • Abolition of Business Stamp Duties
  • New WorkCover Employer Payment
  • WorkCover Update 2011
  • Long Term Ground Leases
  • Abandonment of Goods
  • How Do Sellers Get Paid For Their Goods? Take 2 ...
  • What's in a Name?
  • Staff Profile: John Walsh
DW Report - Summer 2011
In this report:
  • Estate Wise: Introducing On-line Estate Planning Support
  • Competition & Consumer Laws
  • Where There's a
  • Modern Awards
  • SA Still the Highest Business Tax State
  • Hit the Ground Running: Paid Parental Leave
  • Small Business Employers & Unfair Dismissal
  • Workcover 2011
  • Love Me (Legal) Tender
  • The Spam Act
  • International Franchising
  • Staff Profile: Christian Munt
DW Report - Spring 2010
In this report:
  • SA Business Enterprise Centres; Under Threat
  • How do Sellers get Paid for their Goods?
  • Duty to Prevent Insolvent Trading
  • Fair Work Australia Recognises the Potential Impact of Facebook
  • National Business Name Registration System
  • Wind Farms - For the Greater Good
  • Fair Work Ombudsman to Audit SA Winemakers
  • Franchisor Unconscionable Conduct
  • Unfair Dismissal & Injured Employees - Where to Draw the Line?
  • Redeployment Before Redundancy
  • SA Small Business Law & WA Franchising Bill
  • Law Firm Blood Challenge
  • Staff Profile: Christopher Bruce
DW Report - Winter 2010
In this report:
  • Employer Alert: Redeployment before Redundancy
  • Deeds: Signed, Sealed, Delivered
  • Motorists v Children: Duty of Care
  • Corporate Reform: Reporting Simplified and Dividend Rules Changed
  • Case Study: Use of Statutory Demands
  • Developments Concerning Medical Panels SA
  • Franchise Royalties at Risk
  • Improved Migration Agent Information
  • Staff Profile: Alastair (Sandy) Donaldson
DW Report - Autumn 2010
In this report:
  • Notaries Public: Who are they and what do they do?
  • Proposed new Franchising Law in SA
  • Franchising Code of Conduct: Latest Changes
  • 50th International Franchise Convention USA
  • Registered Employers: Where do you sit in the Scheme?
  • Testamentary Trusts: An important tool
  • Shifting the Risk of the Slip: Delegation of the Duty of Care
  • Wine Labels: Regulatory requirements
  • Business Names Go National
  • Staff Profile: Jarrod Ryan
DW Report - Summer 2010
In this report:
  • Are you giving away your trade secrets
  • Protecting Confidential Information
  • Am i my brother's keeper? Civil Liability: A hotelier's duty of care
  • Professional advisers beware! Solicitor liable for facilitating unlawful 'phoenix' activity
  • Restaurant not negligent for double shooting. Civil Liability: Duty of care and causation
  • South Australia, the state with the highest business taxes. Is tax reform likely, or just a shift of the deck chairs?
  • Staff Profile: Kieren Moore. Hendrix in a pin-stripe
DW Report - Spring 2009
In this report:
  • Housing Legal Clinic
  • Employer bound to grievance procedure in AWA
  • Are you operating a franchise system or are you not?
  • Gray matter - Who owns products of the mind?
  • Building responsibility - The buck doesn't always stop with the principal contractor
  • New high-income threshold figures released for unfair dismissal
  • Directors be aware or risk personal liability
  • Tipple treat - Exciting new liquor sampling laws proposed for producers
  • When the time comes, a franchisor's restraint of trade clause may not be enforceable
  • Revisiting the Retail & Commercial Leases Act
  • Opes scheme approval introduces resolving corporate collapse
  • Radical proposed changes to consumer law could soon render unfair terms in standard contracts void
  • Practice area profile: Commercial Disputes & Insolvency
DW Report - Winter 2009
In this report:
  • Motor Accident Commission improving safety on SA roads
  • State Franchising Conference
  • Carbon Pollution Scheme
  • GFC and WorkCover
  • director's duty to prevent insolvent trading
  • charities conducting commercial activities
  • interpretation of contract documents
  • Police Health's transition to public company
  • challenging additional WorkCover levies
  • income tax deductions
DW Report - Summer 2009
In this report:
  • Recovery Of Problem Debts
  • Provisional Liability In Workers Compensation
  • Buying And Selling Game Machine Entitlements
  • Arbitration Clauses
  • Retention Of Title Clauses
  • White Paper & Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme
DW Report - Spring 2008
In this report:
  • Corporate & Commercial
  • Commercial Disputes & Insolvency
  • Insurance
  • Workers Compensation & Self Insurance
  • Workplace Relations & Employment
  • Taxation & Revenue
DW Report - Winter 2008
In this report:
  • Managing Injured Or Ill Workers
  • New Flexibility Clause For Individual Workers Only
  • Rudd Releases 10 National Employment Standards
  • Insurance - Have you thought about it?
  • AFPC Wage Review 2008, Sexual Harassment and Discrimination at Work, Estate Planning: Should I Have A Will With A Testamentary Trust?
  • Is Your Domain Name Protected?
  • Rights to Intellectual Property
  • Duty Of Mortgagee To Take Reasonable Care In Sale Of Property
DW Report- Feb/March 08
In this report:
  • Australian Government Release Draft - National Employment Standards
  • Rann's Workers Comp Cuts
  • What To Do When The Workplace Ombudsman Calls!
  • OHS - Director Liability
  • How Safe Is The
  • Franchising - Default And Termination Notices Under The Franchising Code Of Conduct
  • Employer Confusion Over Public Holidays
  • Reducing The Risks - Legal Due Diligence And Land Transactions
  • BAE Get Race Discrimination Exemption
DW Report-Summer07/08
In this report:
  • Christmas Chaos
  • Responsibile Officer Liabilities
  • Labors New Workplace Relations System
  • Colours and Trademark Protection
  • Workers Compensation Changes Alert
  • Confidentiality Obligation Prevents Former Employee From Soliciting Clients
  • $400,000 Damages Awarded In Discrimination & Harassment Case
  • Franchising December 2007

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