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Holman Webb is delighted to announce 10 internal promotions across our Eastern Sea-Board offices, effective 1 July 2017. These promotions span our commercial recovery and insolvency, corporate and commercial, dispute resolution, insurance, property, and workplace relations practices.
Many health care providers own or lease business premises which are the subject of Strata title and currently more than a quarter of NSW’s population lives in, owns or manages Strata property.
Greg Malakou, Holman Webb CEO, speaks to Business First magazine about how innovation not only gives Holman Webb a competitive advantage in the market but is also fundamental to the firm’s growth strategy.
The case of Jones v Bartlett (2000) 205 CLR 166 ('Jones v Bartlett') stands for the basic proposition that an owner of a residential premises does not owe a duty of care to a plaintiff to ensure that premises are updated to comply with ever evolving Australian Standards and Building Codes.
Holman Webb is delighted to announce 9 internal promotions across our Sydney and Melbourne office, effective 1 July 2016. These promotions span across the workplace relations, insurance, property, commercial recovery and insolvency and ctp practices.
Holman Webb is delighted to announce that we have been selected as finalists in the following Australasian Law Awards 2016 categories:
Many properties are either burdened or benefited by easements - but what is an easement, and what does it mean if your property is the subject of an easement?
The Owners Strata Plan 61288 v Brookfield Australia Investments (New South Wales Court of Appeal, 25 September 2013)
SP 61288 is the owner of the common property of serviced apartments, the Mantra Chatswood Hotel (rather than a residential development). The statutory warranties by the builder under the Home Building Act (which allow a 6 year period for the discovery of structural defects) did not apply to the construction, as those warranties only apply to residential building work.
The NSW Court of Appeal has decided that a breach of section 62 of the Strata Schemes Management Act 1996 (the mandatory obligation for a strata plan to maintain the common property) does not give rise to an action for damages for breach of its statutory duty.