Newspaper & Journal Articles

Eakin Mccaffery Cox Welcomes Tom Wallace

Eakin McCaffery Cox welcomes Tom Wallace as a solicitor in our Litigation Team. With a background in commercial litigation, Tom brings experience having acted for clients in debt recovery, corporate insolvency and bankruptcy proceedings. Tom appears regularly in various State and Federal Courts and maintains professional relationships with insolvency practitioners, small business owners and members

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Director Identification Numbers (‘din’) – Sounding With Creditors – Will It Kill the Phoenix? Summary

New legislation, which is expected to commence within the next two years,  will require all directors of a body corporate registered under the Corporations Act and Corporations (Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander) Act to register for a Director Identification Number (‘DIN’). https://www.eakin.com.au/director-identification-numbers https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:6683173716190490624

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Procurement (Enforceable Procurement Provisions) Direction 2019 – Nsw – “clayton’s” Protection for Sme’s?

This NSW provision hangs off the state “version” of the legislation the Commonwealth required New South Wales to enter into pursuant to the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement as incorporated into the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP-11)) with the USA and others. It is to do with, amongst other things, giving tenderers some recourse

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Issues to Think About if Starting a Business

A list of issues to think about. Not necessarily apt for all situations, but a good base which a few people have now used to ground their thinking. If you are interested in starting up a business and, after reading this, have any questions, please feel free to contact us. https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:6637479952121978880 Read Issues to Think

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Eakin Mccaffery Cox in Affiliation With Australiance Is Holding a Seminar Evening on Issues for Small Business

On 20 February 2020 Eakin McCaffery Cox in affiliation with Australiance is holding a seminar evening on issues for Small Business. Partners Gregory Ross and Stephen Boatswain will be talking on Protection of Intellectual Property for Small Business and Workplace Issues for Start ups. https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:6629882276324970496

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Eakin Mccaffery Cox Welcomes Dr Stephen Pallavicini

Eakin McCaffery Cox welcomes Dr Stephen Pallavicini as a partner in our Property Team. With many years’ experience in Sydney commercial law firms and as Senior Legal Counsel Commercial Property Stockland and Lead Lawyer / Senior Property Lawyer Woolworths Group, Stephen has a breadth and depth of knowledge in the commercial property field which is

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Protection of Intellectual Property for Small Businesses

Eakin McCaffery Cox partner Gregory Ross is, in collaboration with Advisers Digest presenting a Webinar on 12 February 2020 “Protection of Intellectual Property for Small Businesses”. Full detail can be found at https://lnkd.in/fs-pNhw https://www.linkedin.com/posts/eakin-mccaffery-cox_join-our-live-webinarwith-guest-presenter-activity-6629870203134148608-yaqJ/

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Amb Crackdown on Doctors Providing Alternative Medicine

Eakin McCaffery Cox Partner Greg Ross discusses the Australian Medical Board’s apparent crackdown on doctors providing Alternative Medicine and Therapies. Introduction The Australian Medical Board (AMB) is considering options for “clearer regulation of medical practitioners who provide complementary and unconventional medicine and emerging treatments”, and has issued a Consultation Paper on its proposals and called

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Voidable Transactions and the Race Against Time

Australian Restructuring Insolvency & Turnaround Association (ARITA) Journal Co-authored by Christina Cavallaro, Senior Associate at Eakin McCaffery Cox Lawyers and Nicholas Simpson, Sydney barrister. This article discusses the recent Court of Appeal decision of Sydney Recycling Park Pty Ltd v Cardinal Group Pty Ltd (in liquidation) [2016] NSWCA 329 and explores the issue of bringing

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When Is a Contract Claim a Bankrupt’s Claim?

Law Society Journal Co-authored by Christina Cavallaro, Senior Associate at Eakin McCaffery Cox Lawyers and Nicholas Simpson, Sydney barrister. The article examines the recent decision of Berryman v Zurich Australia Ltd [2016] WASC 196 which considered whether a benefit payable pursuant to a bankrupt’s disability insurance policy was divisible amongst his or her creditors and,

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A Change of Mark Specification

Asia IP Magazine Christina Cavallaro and Gregory Ross provide their comments on whether amendments to registered trade marks should be permitted to keep up with evolving technology.

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