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The current unfair contract terms legislation has the effect that consumers and small businesses (currently businesses with less than 20 employees) can seek to avoid unfair terms in contracts. A term of a standard contract is potentially unfair if it: (a) causes a significant imbalance between the rights of the parties; (b) is not reasonably […]

The Fair Work Commission has determined an unfair dismissal application made against Deliveroo having regard to recent High Court guidance in respect of the question of whether a person is an employee or contractor. The test now focuses more on the terms of the written contract in question, but retains the ever important factors of […]

Reported locally under the particularly adventurous headline “Premier keeps Dick in the Dark”, the amendments to Queensland’s land tax laws proposed by treasurer Cameron Dick have been shelved, at least for the time being. Those amendments would have seen the value of interstate landholdings included when calculating the overall land holdings of an owner, resulting […]

A recent decision of the Queensland Supreme Court considered whether Beatrice Lane in Brisbane City is public or private land. While delving into matters concerning rights of way and easements often involves looking into the history of the land, this matter was unusual in that the relevant facts started from when the subject land was […]