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Land Contract, Late Deposit. Is all lost?

Please note that this post was prepared before the changes to the standard REIQ contract made in early 2022, which changed the treatment of late payments in certain respects. At any time and in particular in a heated property market the buyer must be careful to perform obligations under a land contract when they are […]

Fallout from financial advice

Federal Court proceedings have been commenced against Dixon Advisory on behalf of a disappointed client. This follows reports that in July 2021 Dixon Advisory entered into a heads of agreement to resolve other Federal Court proceedings (in that case brought by ASIC) for various breaches relating to advice given. It was reported that the heads […]

Driven to distraction

Some very interesting concepts relating to driver distraction and road side advertising signs were discussed in a recent decision of the Planning and Environment Court of Queensland, in Australian Outdoor Sign Company Pty Ltd v. Brisbane City Council [2021] QPEC 45. While it might sound like pretty dry stuff, it actually makes for a good […]

Media potentially liable for third-party defamatory facebook posts

On 8 September 2021 the High Court found that media organisations (in this case Fairfax Media Publications, Nationwide news, and Australian News Channel) – by creating a public facebook page and posting content on it – encouraged and assisted the publication of comments from third-party Facebook users. The consequence is that those organisations are taken […]