10 more sleeps to the JAM International Family Law Conference in Malta. Remember when you were small and excited and counting sleeps :D That’s me! Excited to be invited and attending the JAM international family law conference in Malta. The conference is JAM packed full (yes that was an awful pun) of speakers: senior family law specialists, barristers, experts and judges from Australia, USA, Malta and The Hague. Family law can and often does present us with many complex and i

Employees at the Woolworths Brisbane Liquor Distribution Centre have had the Fair Work Commission set out the interpretation of the public holiday provision in the Woolworths Limited Brisbane Liquor Distribution Centre Enterprise Agreement (the Agreement) after the National Union of Workers made an application to the FWC to resolve the dispute. Facts of the dispute The question centered around whether night shift workers, who commenced their shift at 9.00pm on a public holida

There are considerable new legal developments around domestic violence to report this month. Legal Aid Cross Examination Scheme In March, the Family Law Act was amended to include s102NA. Victims have been and are being re-traumatised in the court system by self-represented perpetrators currently allowed to cross examine the victim in the court proceedings. This section 102NA provides for mandatory protections for alleged victims from alleged perpetrators and will ban direc