by JFM Team | Sep 8, 2021
In January 2020, Andreyev Lawyers and JFM Law merged two long established firms with different cultures and ways of doing things. As it transpired, successfully integrating our practices was not the only challenge we faced, since 2020/2021 found us and the rest of the...
by Mariam Chalak | Nov 4, 2020
The Fair Work Commission (the ‘Commission’) is a jurisdiction that is accessible to self-represented litigants. The Commission is unlikely to award costs against an unsuccessful applicant in an unfair dismissal application. However, there are still...
by Mariam Chalak | Oct 12, 2020
In a landmark decision published by the Court of Appeal in the Supreme Court of New South Wales today, it is finally settled that a by-law creating a blanket ban on pets in a strata scheme is invalid on the basis that such a by-law is oppressive. The decision in...
by Mariam Chalak | Oct 12, 2020
On 2 October 2020, the Federal Court of Australia in Roohizadegan v TechnologyOne Limited (No 2) [2020] FCA 1407 awarded close to $5 million in damages and penalties to the successful applicant, by relying on a mixture of breaches under the Fair Work Act 2009 (Cth),...
by JFM Team | Sep 29, 2020
An interesting unfair dismissal case which shows the importance of affording an employee procedural fairness in a summary dismissal (which sometimes seems counter-intuitive). Some facts below: The applicant was a shopfitter and cabinetry maker for about 5 years. The...
