As more and more businesses start reopening and restrictions continue to be lifted, workers who are receiving JobKeeper will be required to get back into the workplace. Barrister Ian Neil explained to Oliver Peterson what businesses can and can’t do to get employees back to work.
Employment barrister Ian Neil says many employers are not applying for the scheme because they are concerned about uncertainty if they make a claim but then fall short of the 30% revenue reduction to be eligible. …
If ever we emerge from the pandemic vaguely intact, does the delivery of the law “snap back” to its old ways? Sydney barrister Ian Neil SC thinks the opportunity is here for the law to take a giant forward step for mankind.
“Day by day our courts are being totally transformed by the COVID-19 crisis. Civil courts are using video and audio links. New criminal jury trials have been suspended and judge alone criminal trials are becoming rare. A recent major drug conspiracy trial in the NSW District Court was derailed after concerns about safe distancing, but […]
According to Ian Neil SC, Australian courts are not only responding quickly and effectively to the outbreak, but they are likely to thrive with the adjustments afterwards. Meetings by video links, new technology and updated processes could become the norm in six months.
A barrister acting on behalf of Sterling First victims is confident the matter will be heard within the Supreme Court this year.
A dispute stemming from the collapse of a property scheme, which has left vulnerable retirees facing potential homelessness, may be headed for the WA Supreme Court.
Amita Gupta is appealing against a Fair Work Commission decision that dismissed her unfair dismissal claim in August on the basis that she was not an “employee” of the company with protections under the Fair Work Act.
Former Labor MP Ernest Wong has been accused of “cultivating” Chinese billionaire Huang Xiangmo for political donations, betraying the ALP and lying to the corruption inquiry investigating his alleged conduct.
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