Have you ever visited a provider of goods with cash and have them refuse to take it stating, “we only take payWave,”? Well I have visited several bars in Adelaide and had this happen to me. It spurred me onto investigating whether a provider of goods can legally refuse cash as the customer’s legal tender.

Calderbank v Calderbank Calderbank v Calderbank [1975] 3 All ER 333 (EWCA) was a decision of the English Court of Appeal that has had a significant impact on Australian Law; this decision is the origin of the term ‘Calderbank Offer.’ But before we go through what a ‘Calderbank Offer’ actually is, let’s take a look at the case itself: Mr…

Your business could be at risk for defamation action if comments left on your Facebook page or Instagram are defamatory, yes even if you didn’t know they were there. Since a recent High Court judgment, now you not only have to comply with all your other legal obligations as a small business, your Social Media accounts have just become a…

Unlike many taxes which are generally passive in nature, the New Land Tax provisions allow you to make a number of active choices including nominating a designated beneficiary of a Discretionary Trust, Notifying the Commissioner (or not) of Unit Holders of a unit trust, or choosing who will be the director of a land owning company. All these choices, and…