Uncategorised

It seems as though this blog page could be entirely populated by recent decisions on home made wills.  Certainly, home made wills are fertile ground for litigation with the resulting benefit flowing to lawyers acting in that litigation.  In this case, the Queensland Supreme Court in Bain v Demarchi [2023] QSC 199 has considered a […]

Often when drawing wills, lawyers are faced with instructions where the will maker does not want to give a direct gift to their child for various reasons.  In some cases, it might be that they are estranged from the child, or that they have had a very bad history with the child, or that the […]

Pay secrecy clauses in employment contracts (ie clauses that forbid an employee from sharing information about their pay or terms, or asking any other employee about their pay or terms) are unlawful in any new written employment agreement as and from 7 June 2023.  If the employment contract was made between 7 December 2022 and […]

In good news to landlords with CPI review mechanisms in their leases, the June CPI figures have been published here https://www.abs.gov.au/statistics/economy/price-indexes-and-inflation/consumer-price-index-australia/latest-release For Brisbane the annual change is approximately 6.3%, although the index figures should be used under most CPI formulae.