Valuable legal updates

The Work Groups at Moores Legal attempt to keep clients, referrers and contacts informed and up-to-date on legal issues affecting different sectors, industries, companies and individuals by providing regular newsletters and alerts.

Moores Legal's stable of Briefings, Alerts and Updates covers business, employment, not for profit, estate planning, superannuation & structuring, family and elder law issues.

Within this section you will find current and archived editions of each of our newsletters and alerts together with the facility to register to receive future editions by email. Your feedback and suggestions are encouraged.

Business Briefing - Discovery

Designed for our business and commercial clients, our Discovery newsletter keeps clients informed of recent developments in law relating to company specific issues, such as making the most of tax laws, succession planning, partnerships, buying and selling business.

Elder Law Briefing

The proportion of Australia's population at or nearing retirement age is increasing. Legal issues affecting older people and their families such as wills, probate, age discrimination and entry into aged care are all covered in this newsletter.

Employment Alert

Employment Law is constantly under review by Government in response to the changing needs of both employers and employees. Employment Alert has been designed for those working in the area of workplace relations and deals with legal issues relating to this ever-changing field.

EPSS Advisor Update

The EPSS Advisor Update looks at the changes impacting on Australian estate planning, superannuation and structuring of investments and businesses.  It provides a summary of how those changes might have an impact and alerts readers to possible review issues which may need to be considered.

Family Law Briefing

The Family Law Briefing looks at the changing face of parenting laws, child support laws and Collaborative Family Law.

The Family Law team at Moores Legal keep you up to date on legislative changes, interesting interpretations of the law and fascinating case studies.

Not for Profit Briefing

Not for Profit organisations are an integral part of Australian society and have special requirements. This newsletter is designed to enable those working in the sector to keep up-to-date with legal issues that can have an impact on their organisations.

Current Newsletters

• Archives (23 Feb 2010) -

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• Business Briefing - Discovery (17 Sep 2009) -

  In this issue of Discovery we look at "Fair Dismissals for Small Businesses under the Fair Work Act 2009 (Cth)";  we highlight some of the asset protection concerns specific to SMSF's, discretionary trusts and unit trusts; consider a recent Supreme Court of Queensland decision dealing with the question of whether a company had infringed the copyright of another's computer program; and discuss the new stamp duty on Leases.

• EPSS Advisor Update (16 Feb 2009) -

  This review covers topics such as domestic relationships other than marriage, instalment warrants for SMSFs, binding death benefit nominations, restricted account based pensions, financial enduring powers of attorney, insurance bond trusts, special disability trusts, asset protection, Mornington estate planning discussion group, new publication - estate planning documents.

• Elder Law Briefing (24 Feb 2010) -

  Over recent months, there have been a number of references in the print media to aspects of elder law.  The frequency of articles on elder law topics confirms the growing awareness of elder law as an area of social significance.

• Employment Alert (25 Feb 2010) -

  What did I do wrong?

  New guidelines established for occupational health and safety prosecutions

• Family Law Briefing (19 Oct 2009) -

  This Family Law Briefing looks at some practical issues confronting those going through the family law process, recent developments in Family Law and the Less Adversarial Trial process.

• Injury Briefing (17 Dec 2009) -

  The Government has now presented to Parliament an Amendment Bill to the Workcover legislation.  We have prepared a summary of the likely changes arising from the Hanks Review.

• Not for Profit Briefing (11 Feb 2010) -

  This Special Edition of the Not for Profit Alert discusses the Productivity Commission Report - NFP Sector.

  The Productivity Commission Report on the NFP sector released on 11 February 2010 will be a valuable resource and set the compass for the NPF sector in the next decade.