by Dominic Green | Mar 18, 2021 | Commercial Law
The challenges of 2020 saw ASIC and the ATO offer relief to small businesses in the hope of keeping them afloat: limiting personal liability for insolvent trading, providing financial relief for employers through JobKeeper payments, and taking other actions to lighten...
by Dominic Green | Mar 3, 2021 | Uncategorized
Newcastle’s Queens Wharf Hotel has won a battle over noise complaints arising from its live music, with a ruling by Liquor & Gaming dismissing the complaint. A noise limiter was however installed, and regular tests were conducted thereafter to ensure the maximum...
by Dominic Green | Feb 22, 2021 | Criminal Laws
Cybercrime and Small Businesses: Are you protected? In 2019 Gillian Franklin (founder of The Heat Group, a Melbourne-based wholesale cosmetics company) was in London preparing to knock the socks of Tesco’s representatives during a presentation. All was going well,...
by Dominic Green | Dec 10, 2020 | Criminal Laws
‘I see (the defendants) as vulgar, anti-establishment, antisocial and unpragmatic, but none of those things are indictable’ – Robert Schultz (Prosecutor), The Trial of Chicago 7. After its release on Netflix, The Trial of the Chicago 7 was the...
by Dominic Green | Nov 9, 2020 | Criminal Laws
How do you lose $8.7 billion? It’s got us scratching our heads. But according to the ABC, that’s how much the Australian Government lost to tax evasion and fraud in 2014–2015. Now in the 2019–2020 financial year, you can bet that the ATO will be...
