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Can I appeal or object to a land tax assessment?

What happens if I get a land tax assessment or a vacant residential land tax assessment that I do not agree with? Can I appeal or object a land tax assessment or vacant residential land tax assessment?

Legal professional privilege: How safe are your documents in the hands of others?

Knowing about legal professional privilege (LPP), when it applies and how it can be protected (and lost) is not something that may be on everyone’s radar on a day-to-day basis; by the time it is, it is usually already too late.

This article looks at a recent decision of the Supreme Court of South Australia concerning LPP and how LPP can be held and treated by more than 1 person: PK v The Salesian Society Inc [2025] SASC 208.

Assessing when a limitation period applies to a claim and substantiating loss: Lessons from R Lawyers v Mr Daily

The task of assessing whether a claim may have expired due to the application of a statutory limitation period and how to substantiate a loss claimed if there is a viable claim is not always straightforward.

In the decision of R Lawyers v Mr Daily [2025] HCA 41, the High Court of Australia clarified when a limitation period will start running for professional negligence and the evidence needed to substantiate a claim for loss where negligence has been established in a case involving a binding financial agreement.

What interest does a bankruptcy trustee have in the property of a bankrupt executor?

Judge Forbes clarified in Odrzywolska (Trustee) v Rozmaric, in the matter of Vidmar (Bankrupt)[1], that the beneficial interest in a deceased estate and a right to indemnity of an executor who is bankrupt vests in the bankruptcy trustee in the case of bankruptcy of the executor

Removing a Liquidator – the case of Gemwood Projects Pty Ltd (in liq)

Justice Croft of the Supreme Court of Victoria removed a liquidator from the winding up of a company determining he failed to act honestly by settling unfair preference claims with the ATO and SRO without disclosing key information in Re Gemwood Projects Pty Ltd (in liq) [2025] VSC 819.

Sladen Snippet – Williams v Robba - death benefit claim staking process upheld

The recent decision by the QLD Supreme Court in Williams v Robba illustrates the importance of conducting a ‘claim-staking process’ to demonstrate that an SMSF trustee has given real and genuine consideration in exercising its discretion to pay superannuation death benefits.

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