• Employee Personal Information and Privacy. What the Recommendations of the Privacy Act Review Report Means for You - Fortuitously coinciding with the recent spate of amendments to the Privacy Act 1988 (Cth) (Privacy Act) in late 2022 following several high-profile data breaches involving the exposure of tens of millions of individual’s data, the Privacy Act Review Report 2022 (Privacy Review Report) is the culmination of two years of extensive inter-agency consultation regarding the protection of an individual’s information in the digital age.
• Landmark Decision Establishes Important Principles for NSW Local Councils - Planning & Environment Partner Jim Griffiths acted for Muswellbrook Shire Council in these landmark NSW proceedings. On 27 March 2023, His Honour Justice Basten found in favour of the Council in the Supreme Court of NSW. Although ostensibly a case seeking orders for repayment of overpaid council rates, the judgement establishes a number of important principles for NSW local councils.
• Security of Payment: Deed of Company Arrangement preserves insolvent company’s entitlement to “pay now, argue later” - For the first time since its introduction in 2018, the Supreme Court of NSW has considered the scope of section 32B of the Building and Construction Industry Security of Payment Act 1999 (NSW) (SOP Act) in Kennedy Civil Contracting Pty Ltd (Administrators Appointed) v Richard Crookes Construction Pty Ltd; In the matter of Kennedy Civil Contracting Pty Ltd [2023] NSWSC 99.