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LIV 160th: A regulatory leap forward

Simon Smith 01 Nov 2019

In the final of a four-part series extracted from his history of the LIV published this month, historian Simon Smith looks at how the LIV became the regulator of Victorian solicitors...

Trust accounting: LIV offers one on one help

Carolyn Ford 01 Nov 2019

Trust Consult and Practice Management Consult are new bespoke services designed to help legal practitioners...

Practice Management

Conduct: The burden of keeping secrets

Carolyn Ford 01 Nov 2019

New research has lessons for lawyers who have to keep many more secrets than the average person...

Ethics Health Wellbeing

Welcome: Judge Karl Blake

Law Institute Journal 01 Nov 2019

Judge Karl Blake was welcomed to the Federal Circuit Court of Australia on 6 February. Among the speakers was LIV president Stuart Webb. This is an edited version of his speech...

Appointments

Opinion: How to stop wage theft

Gabrielle Watson-Munro 01 Nov 2019

Reform is needed to help stamp out systemic exploitation of vulnerable workers...

Opinions

Contract of sale of land: Lock, stock and barrel

David P Lloyd, Murray McCutcheon and Robert Bradley 01 Nov 2019

The 2019 LIV/REIV contract of sale of land varies in many important respects from the contract of sale of real estate previously in use...

Real Property

Asset confiscation: Crime doesn’t pay

Nicole Spicer and Venetia Stewart 01 Nov 2019

Confiscating the assets of criminals is one way that the legal system meritoriously seeks to ensure that “crime doesn’t pay” and provide compensation to victims of crime, but it can also produce some unintended effects...

Housing associations: Public functions and private bodies

Kylie Evans and Nicholas Petrie 01 Nov 2019

When is a registered housing association subject to judicial and charter review?...

Financial services: 'Efficiently, honestly and fairly'

Laurence White 01 Nov 2019

Australian financial services licence holders must ensure they fulfil all requirements efficiently, honestly and fairly. This obligation is subject to significant new sanctions which advisers should be aware of...

Finance

Transfer of Land Act: Caveats and contracts of sale

Philip Barton 01 Nov 2019

Under the caveat provisions, cases can turn on whether a contract exists or has been rescinded with twists involving nominees, unsubdivided land and obligations outstanding after settlement. Provision of purchase monies involves further issues...

Real Property