Essential Commercial Leasing Guide
Entering into a commercial lease for the first time can be an exciting and overwhelming experience, and without the proper legal advice can lead to costly, unnecessary, binding mistakes. In Queensland, a commercial retail lease is a legally binding contract […]
What is Environmental Harm, and how do you comply with the General Environmental Duty?
Environmental Harm is any adverse effect, or potential adverse effect on an environmental value. The adverse effect or potentially adverse effect, can be temporary, permanent, and of varying degrees of magnitude, duration or frequency. It includes an environmental nuisance.* Environmental […]
What is an Environmental Protection Order?
An Environmental Protection Order (or EPO) is a written document issued pursuant to the Environmental Protection Act 1994 (the Act) requiring the recipient to undertake certain actions within a specific timeframe, so as to remedy an environmental risk or prevent […]
How to protect Copyright… & what is Copyright?
Copyright is the protection of creative work and is free and automatic in Australia. There is no system of registration, and protection is immediate upon the creation of your work to paper, video, disk or other printed material. Copyright […]
Though much has been made in the media of the ‘death’ of the mining boom in Australia, it is easy to forget the cyclical nature of the industry and exploration is occurring all the time, whether for new mining ventures […]
One feature of mining, regardless if it is mining for minerals, metals or other resources, is the frequency of entering into contracts, with contractors, suppliers, joint venture partners, landowners, and so on. And when it comes time to enter into […]
Protecting Your Brand
Have you started or are running your own business? You’ve selected a great name for the business, registered it as a business name, completed your budgets and projections, got your premises selected, arranged signage for the front door, ordered letterhead, […]
What is a put & call option? And how is it used to develop land?
A put & call option is actually two agreements in one. Essentially, it is an agreement that gives the buyer and the seller a choice to buy and sell land at a future time, on agreed terms. A call option […]
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