Amelia Edwards, lawyer in our Corporate & Commercial team, joined me on JOY Law to discuss religious freedom, discrimination and the Australian Marriage Postal Survey, including: religious organisations and exemptions from discrimination; existing legal protection for religious freedom (for example, not having to ordain a priest who is transgender); commercial enterprises and discrimination; potential implications … Read more
As the debate over the Australian Marriage Law Postal Survey heats up, Amelia Edwards joined me on JOY Law to talk about legal protections against defamation and vilification, including: free speech versus hate speech; freedom of communication on political matters; Vote YES, Vote NO campaign communications; legal protections against defamation and vilification; cyber bullying and … Read more
By Kate Davey (Senior Associate) and Paul Welling (Principal Solicitor) Your company has been served with a Form 509H Creditors Statutory Demand for Payment of Debt – what happens next? In our earlier post titled ‘Statutory Demands – the pros and the cons‘ we discussed the use of Statutory Demands by creditors to recover debts … Read more
Last month, the Honourable Kelly O’Dwyer MP announced that the Turnbull Government would be introducing new laws in a bid to crack down on illegal phoenixing activities that cost the Australian economy up to an estimated $3.2 billion per year. What are phoenixing activities? “Phoenixing” occurs when individuals or entities deliberately strip assets from one … Read more
Great question from a JOY Law listener this week: “I’m in a new relationship with a woman, and she’s pregnant. The donor is known to her. Will I be the child’s mother if we marry?” Listen to the JOY Law podcast by clicking here. If you’d like the team to answer a question on air, … Read more
On JOY Law this week, Jack Stuk and I talked about issues associated with recognition of LGBTI relationships, including: Wills; Powers of Attorney; how same sex relationships are currently recognised; and what happens when same sex relationships break down. Listen to the podcast by clicking here. If you’d like the team to answer a question … Read more
The Full Court of the Family Court of Australia recently handed down a decision regarding a couple who were seeking to become the legal parents of their child, who was born overseas under a commercial surrogacy arrangement. Surrogacy in Australia Currently in Australia, each state and territory has its own legislation with regard to surrogacy. … Read more
The recent Ken Hinkley/Gold Coast Suns issue has since been resolved by Hinkley signing a new deal with Port Adelaide, but it does raise the question of what the club would have done if Gold Coast had poached him. In respect of Hinkley, would Port have gone down the same path as the (NRL) Bulldogs … Read more
Each Tuesday afternoon at 4.45pm the team from KHQ will join Rach, Jacq and Dene on JOY FM for ‘JOY Law’, a regular segment where we discuss legal issues of interest to the LGBTI community. Topics we will cover include: family law advice for rainbow families surrogacy sperm and egg donation agreements adoption and co-parenting … Read more
