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17/12/2010 - Corporate Update: Personal Property Securities Act - Implications for the mining industry 09/12/2010 -“The Summerhouse” at New Farm Park 09/12/2010 - A question of jurisdiction: a Standard Building Regulation certificate of classification 09/12/2010 - Furthering our understanding of “substantially different development” 09/12/2010 - Court exercises discretion to revive development application 09/12/2010 - State resource entitlement required for preliminary approval 07/12/2010 - Planners have become a lightning rod for people’s sense of frustration 23/11/2010 - Property Update: New Disclosure Statements for Landlords of Retail Leases 23/11/2010 - Garden cities of tomorrow or a brave new world: Paper by Ian Wright 22/11/2010 - New Building Energy Upgrade Measures in NSW 22/11/2010 - Update - Dismissal and safety laws - Partners or adversaries 22/11/2010 - New Planning Appeal Powers But Shorter Appeal Time! 15/11/2010 - The cumulative affect of the modern state-of-the-art Roma saleyard 15/11/2010 - Application to re-enliven lapsed development approval 15/11/2010 - Failure to register title no impediment to ownership of land 15/11/2010 - Frivolous or vexatious claim 15/11/2010 - Single event to constitute material change of use 15/11/2010 - Conflict with Scheme: Residential use on preferred rural use land 11/11/2010 - Optus Advertising Declared Illegal 09/11/2010 - Property Update: Property Advertising - New obligation from 1 November 2010 03/11/2010 - The importance of choosing a distinctive brand 03/11/2010 - The Precautionary Principle in Australia 27/10/2010 - New rules for development assessment 30/09/2010 - Update: Redeployment to Related Companies 29/09/2010 - Expiry of Local Laws 29/09/2010 - Development Approvals confer ownership on landowner in the sense of the right to take advantage of a development approval 29/09/2010 - No excusal for non-compliance with IPA 21/09/2010 - LRET & SRES: A quick guide to help you understand the "new" REC markets commencing in 2011 08/09/2010 - High Court decides on Octaviar 08/09/2010 - PPS: It's coming 02/09/2010 - Superannuation Update - Shifting Geer August 2010 26/08/2010 - Relief from failure to provide plan for reconfiguration in time 26/08/2010 - Dismissing appeal for breach of Court orders 26/08/2010 - When is a change permissible? 26/08/2010 - Can Prince Charming awaken Sleeping Beauty? 26/08/2010 - Council has no say to the use of fee simple land - how absurd? 20/08/2010 - Mineral or not: A question of its use 20/08/2010 - Conflict with planning scheme - no error of law 20/08/2010 - Exercising the court’s discretion: a question of fact 20/08/2010 - Articulating Weightman 17/08/2010 - Court Considers its Powers in Relation to Development Contributions Cap 10/08/2010 - Superannuation Update - The Cooper Review: Special Comments 02/08/2010 - Update: Paid Parental Leave Act 2010 30/07/2010 - Competition Draft SEPP 26/07/2010 - Brownfield Site Development - Getting the Strategy Right 21/07/2010 - OHS prosecution update - due dilligence rewarded 13/07/2010 - Sustainable Housing on the Eastern Seaboard 06/07/2010 - Amendments to the National Parks and Wildlife Act 1974 02/07/2010 - Relief for non-compliance with mandatory requirements 02/07/2010 - Exercise of relief to remedy a development application made under section 3.1.6 of IPA 02/07/2010 - Declaration about what permitted under development approval 02/07/2010 - Payment of Council headworks 01/07/2010 - National Carbon Offset Standard - Assisting you to transform into a low carbon enterprise 30/06/2010 - Changes to the Franchising Code of Conduct 31/05/2010 - Was the development permit valid and sufficient? 31/05/2010 - Costs arising from a failure to comply with Court procedure 31/05/2010 - Serving 888 principal submitters 31/05/2010 - Excusal of non-compliance with mandatory parts and determining “minor changes” 27/05/2010 - Queensland government’s growth management agenda 25/05/2010 - Balanced Securities Limited v Bianco & Ors [2010] VSC 162 25/05/2010 - Update: An OHS “Grace Period” for Councils – Time to prepare for dramatic change 17/05/2010 - Building and Other Legislation Amendment Bill 2010 10/05/2010 - Perpetual Trustee Ltd & Anor v Baranov [No.2] 29/04/2010 - Proposed subordinate legislation to give effect to fibre deployment 29/04/2010 - British Election: Are there any lessons for Australia 19/04/0010 - Protecting land for public recreation: The introduction of the Draft Queensland Greenspace Strategy 09/04/2010 - Owner's consent not required with benefit of easement 09/04/2010 - Minor change - substantially different development? 09/04/2010 - Where renovations affect traditional pre-1946 building character 09/04/2010 - Can the currency period of a lapsed development approval be extended 08/04/2010 - Update: Federal Court sheds light on adverse action provisions 26/03/2010 - Fibre deployment for new developments 23/03/2010 - Update: When Dismissal for Unsafe Work Practices is Unsafe for your Business 18/03/2010 - Court exercises discretion to return development application to public notification 18/03/2010 - Requirements in serving a notice of appeal 18/03/2010 - Application to remove statutory stay 18/03/2010 - Misdescription not fatal to development application 18/03/2010 - Councils' powers to compulsorily acquire land curtailed pending new “re-sale” laws 08/03/2010 - The largest electricity contract in Australian history 04/03/2010 - Perpetual Trustee Ltd v Baranov [2010] VSC18 25/02/2010 - Implication of the High Court's decision in Kirk 24/02/2010 - Stepping up koala conservation in South East Queensland 22/02/2010 - Project and Construction team expands in Brisbane and Sydney 04/02/2010 - iiNet wins landmark copyright battle 20/01/2010 - Determining the scope for protection of native vegetation 20/01/2010 - Application to remove statutory stay 20/01/2010 - Whether conditions imposed on a development application are relevant or reasonable 20/01/2010 - It's not “made” unless it's “properly made” 20/01/2010 - Partial approval of application