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An engineered stone provider has been fined $375,000 after it exposed a worker to a risk of serious illness over a six-year and 10 month period where reasonably practical steps were not taken to minimise exposure to airborne respirable crystalline silica. Edstein Creative Pty Ltd pled guilty to the charge in December 2023. … Continued
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Friday, 17 May 2024 Statement Brett McGrath – President of the Law Society of NSW NSW Solicitors acknowledge Supreme Court’s 200 years Solicitors in NSW have supported the work of the Supreme Court of NSW since it was established two hundred years ago today. When it was first established, just six solicitors were admitted to … Continued
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Learn how Legal Aid NSW can help you with everything from trouble paying fines to housing issues and disasters, and understand more about people working in the law in a series of free webinars this Law Week. Legal Aid NSW is delivering a series of free webinars from 20–26 May with a focus on people … Continued
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Community Legal Centres Australia has described the Federal Government’s failure to make a sufficient investment in community legal centres for 2024-25, or to commit to ongoing legal assistance funding via the forward estimates, as a message to community legal centres to start planning to wind down programs and services over the year ahead. A report … Continued
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The operator of the Rye Summer Carnival has been fined $6,821 after pleading guilty in the Melbourne Magistrates’ Court to 9 charges of breaking Victoria’s child employment laws, including to employing a child below the minimum working age. Wage Inspectorate Victoria, the state’s child employment regulator, began investigating Wittingslow Carnivals Pty Ltd after receiving a … Continued
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Two Spotless entities have pleaded guilty in the Melbourne Magistrates’ Court to underpaying employees’ long service leave entitlements. Spotless Facility Services pleaded guilty to failing to pay 3 casual employees a total of $2,276 in outstanding long service leave entitlements on the day their employment ended. Spotless Services Australia Limited pleaded guilty to failing to … Continued
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14 MAY, 2023 Who: Charles Darwin University law expert Associate Professor Guzyal Hill and research data scientist Dr Yakub Sebastian. Topics: Computational analysis of domestic violence legislation in Australia. The need for cohesive domestic violence legislation across Australia. A notable gap exists in the complexity of domestic violence laws among Australian States and Territories. Prime … Continued
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Slater and Gordon is celebrating the 15th anniversary of becoming the first Australian law firm to provide a free social work service for clients in crisis. Since May 4, 2009, almost 5000 clients have received much-needed psycho-social assistance from the social work service to address many of the common emotional and social consequences of injury … Continued
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Monash University Law students were granted a unique opportunity to gain firsthand insight into the complexities of family law as they attended a live Full Court appeal at the state of the art Monash Moot Court. The Full Court hearing of the Federal and Family Court of Australia (Division 1), held on Tuesday 30 April, … Continued
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Class action claimants across Australia would be more likely to keep more of their award if Victoria’s ‘group costs orders’ (GCO) model was replicated in other states and territories, according to a new report by The McKell Institute. The new report, ‘A Model for the Nation? Four Years of Victoria’s Section 33ZDA,’ analyses the impact … Continued
