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• Skills Strengthen in Brisbane for TressCox Team

  TressCox Lawyers is delighted to announce the appointment of Stephen Tonge as a Consultant in its Brisbane office. Read More

• Connected Women's Network: Developing Opportunities for Promotion and Salary Negotiation

  TressCox Lawyers is delighted to invite you to join us for the launch of our Connected Women’s Network in Sydney with special guest speaker, Kate Southam. Read More

• TressCox Employment Seminars: Sydney & Melbourne

  TressCox will be conducting Employment Seminars in our Sydney and Melbourne offices. Sydney will host an evening seminar titlled 'Changes to Employment Law under the Rudd Government' Melbourne will host a breakfast briefing seminar titled 'The beginning of the end – Rudd’s rollback of WorkChoices Begins' Read More

• Victoria: Tenant Ordered to pay $1,380,000 to Landlord for Breach of Covenant to Maintain and Repair Premises

  In Bowen Investments Pty Limited and Tabcorp Holdings Limited [2008] FCAFC 38, the Full Court of the Federal Court recently ordered Tabcorp Holdings Limited (Tabcorp) to pay an amount of $1,380,000.00 to Bowen Investments Pty Ltd (Bowen) as damages for Tabcorps’ breach of the covenants under its lease to maintain and repair the premises and not to alter the premises without Bowen’s approval as landlord. Read More

• Interim Industrial Relations Legislation Take Effect

  The Rudd government’s interim industrial relations legislation took full effect at midnight on 27 March 2008. Under the new legislation employers ability to enter into new Australian Workplace Agreement’s (AWA’s) is limited.  AWA’s that were signed by both parties prior to midnight 27 March 2008 can still be lodged with the Workplace Authority for up to 14 days (up until midnight 10 April 2008).  AWA’s in existence prior to the proclamation of the legislation will still operate for the remainder of their 5 year term. Read More

• GST and the margin scheme: The ATO gets more than it asked for

  The saga rolls on with the recent decision of Middleton J in the Federal Court in Brady King Pty Limited -v- Commissioner of Taxation 2008 FCA 81, handed down on 18 February 2008.   Put simply, if a supply is a taxable supply, the GST payable is 1/11th of the price of that supply.  However, the parties to a sale of real property can choose to use the margin scheme and so reduce the amount of GST payable to1/11th of the ‘margin’ for the supply.  Read More