Planning on reviewing your management contracts? Now is the time. New guidelines to increase the accountability and standards of owners' corporation management are set to commence in early 2015. Following a public review by the...

From 1 January 2015, a new Franchising Code of Conduct will apply to most franchise agreements, resulting in new disclosure requirements, fines for non-compliance and parties' conduct being subject to an obligation to act in good ...

Promoting investor and financial consumer confidence will stimulate changes to the regulatory environment in Australia. With a renewed focus on financial product design, distribution and disclosure, Australia's financial services ...

On 21 October 2014, Commissioner O'Neill refused Development Application 199/2014 (Johnson v Hornsby Shire Council [2014] NSWLEC 1215) for a new dwelling at Beecroft, due to the ability for a significant amount of remnant Blue Gu...

New South Wales has 12 new Protection of the Environment Operations Waste Regulations. Current operators should be aware of reduced licensing thresholds for waste activities in NSW from 1 November 2014. When any threshold under...

New South Wales has 12 new Protection of the Environment Operations Waste ReguRegulations. 1 November 2014 changes are in response to calls from landfill operators that the previous deduction categories were too restrictive. Pa...