Copyright Infringement – Why risk it when you can be creative?
- December 15, 2016
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By Brian J Tran | Associate Lawyer Any chance you, your staff or business are unlawfully using someone else’s photos, drawings, or artwork by directly reproducing or copying, for instance, via online material such as google, or even eBay?…
Sexual harassment and employer’s strict liability
- November 16, 2016
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By Elly McQuinn A recent ABC News Report discusses the commonplace of sexual harassment experienced in the workplace within society. The Report states this is prevalent in the legal profession with one in four females in the profession experiencing sexual…
What is an Intervention Order and how do they work?
- September 16, 2016
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Intervention Orders ( or Court ordered restraining Orders) by Stephen Lucas and Dinu Kumarasinghe* People often ask us about Intervention Orders (‘IVOs’). In this paper Kingston Lawyers provides some helpful guidance on applying for and responding to IVOs. What…
Criminal Responsibility of Children under the Doli Incapax Principle: A perspective on the culpability of the Northern Beaches Children charged with rape.
- September 14, 2016
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By Elly McQuinn, Trainee Lawyer The news event sweeping the nation is the alleged sexual assaults against a 6 year old child by two 12 year old males in Sydney’s Northern beaches. For many, this may raise the question how…
An Uber update
- August 23, 2016
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Many will be happy to know that the transport service ‘’Uber’’ has finally been given approval by the Victorian Government, who proposes to regulate the entire field of taxi-like services via two new Acts. Interestingly, the taxi licensing system will…
New Taxes on Real Estate Transactions
- June 7, 2016
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Important information for clients from our conveyancing manager Angela Richards – For more information call 9583 4222 or email: conveyancing@kingstonlawyers.com.au When you buy real estate in Victoria you have to pay two taxes to the Government if you are the…
High Court rules in favour of solicitor against angry step son
- May 16, 2016
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A recent High Court decision held that a solicitor cannot be held responsible for the losses suffered by his client’s step son after the client had died. The facts were as follows. A client approached a solicitor to draft a…
Careless marketing campaigns cost companies millions
- April 27, 2016
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The recent finding in the Federal Court of misleading and deceptive conduct in relation to marketing and packaging of products should act as an eye opener for all companies marketing products to consumers on Australian shelves. It was determined in…
Court awards sole custody to non-biological (lesbian) mother
- February 9, 2016
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A recent case highlights that family courts will make parenting orders based on what it regards to be the best interests of the children. The parties Sally and Kylie* commenced a relationship in 2000 in the UK. In 2004 they…
When Lawyers have to pay their client’s Legal Fees
- February 8, 2016
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Lawyers are subject to a myriad of rules and regulations in their practise of law. What some people may not know is that Judges will sometimes order personal costs orders against lawyers because they don’t like their client’s cases,…