From 1 October, 2022, Queensland’s residential tenancy law (contained in the Residential Tenancies and Rooming Accommodation Act 2008) has been amended in various ways, one of which significantly restricts the ability to terminate month to month tenancies. Previously, a month to month tenancy (called a periodic tenancy – which can either be a tenancy which […]
From time to time in litigation, the Plaintiff will succeed to some extent on its claim and the defendant will succeed to some extent on its counterclaim. When that happens, who bears the costs? The answer depends on a number of issues including the conduct of the parties, the extent of success enjoyed by the […]
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 […]
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