by Cameron Shaw | Aug 17, 2015
The term “living will” is a colloquial term to describe a document which gives directions about how you wish your end of life to be managed. Rather than creating an advanced care directive (which is generally quite detailed and specific and done with your...
by Cameron Shaw | Aug 15, 2015
If your property has a “swimming pool”, a Contract for Sale of Land in NSW must attach a Certificate of Compliance, or Non-Compliance, as the case may be. The swimming pool certificate is a prescribed document by reference to Schedule 1 Clause 15 of the...
by Cameron Shaw | Aug 15, 2015
If you’ve done works without council approval then there’s a whole bunch of issues which can emerge, but, you wouldn’t be the first, and if you were thinking of selling, plenty of houses are sold all the time with “unauthorised...
by Cameron Shaw | Aug 15, 2015
I want to leave a bequest to a husband and wife together, is the gift as joint tenants or tenants in common? The common law position, as expressed in Re Lysaght (1987) 48 SASR 457, is that unless words of “severance” are present the relevant persons will take as joint...
by Telemon Admin | Jul 23, 2015
Nicholas Seddon observes in Seddon on Deeds (The Federation Press, 2015), 19: “As a general principal, a contract should be preferred over a deed if there is a choice.”
