George Lawyers

09/03/2017

Great seminar by The Law Society last night on the substantial changes to the new act amending the current Restraining Orders Act together due to come in to force on 1st July this year.

There will be a new type of restraining order and various existing provisions have been amended to strengthen survivor protection and perpetrator accountability.

http://www.parliament.wa.gov.au/Parliament/Bills.nsf/5B414010DBFD1DCA48258027000789E8/$File/Bill210-1.pdf

28/10/2016

Interesting read if you are thinking of leaving a charitable bequest in your will ...

08/07/2016

if you leave a bequest to a charity in your will. Make sure you contact them first and make some research into how that bequest will be used.

A WA man is suing four charities in bid to have his late father’s estate returned to him.

25/06/2016

Breaches of VRO are becoming more and more common unfortunately

09/04/2016

" Chief Justice Thackray said the evidence was that Oshin would die within a few months if nothing was done.

He said there was a 30 per cent chance of survival at five years if he started chemotherapy immediately, and about a 50 per cent chance if he had chemotherapy and radiotherapy.

Those statistics from experts, he said, indicated a good prospect of a long-term cure"

The parents of a Perth boy with brain cancer are ordered by Western Australia's Family Court to allow him to undergo chemotherapy treatment.

19/05/2014

https://au.news.yahoo.com/thewest/a/23631391/top-judge-court-delays-to-worsen/

11/05/2014

What do you think of this?
Do you smoke these?

http://www.businessinsider.com.au/e-ci******es-are-heading-off-the-shelves-following-a-landmark-legal-case-in-western-australia-2014-5

Sales of electronic ci******es are now banned in Western Australia under a landmark legal case which could see the habit-kicking devices outlawed across Australia.

30/04/2014

Verbatim: What Is a Photocopier?
http://www.nytimes.com/video/opinion/100000002847155/verbatim-what-is-a-photocopier.html?playlistId=100000001150263?smid=fb-nytimes&WT.z_sma=VI_VWI_20140428&bicmp=AD&bicmlukp=WT.mc_id&bicmst=1388552400000&bicmet=1420088400000&_r=1

In this dramatization of transcripts from a legal deposition, a lawyer becomes embroiled in an absurd argument about the definition of a photocopier.

02/04/2014

Martin Lewis: five unpleasant truths you can't ignore - essential issues to address as you get olderhttp://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/personalfinance/10725991/Martin-Lewis-Five-unpleasant-truths.html

The founder of Moneysavingexpert on essential issues to address as you get older

02/04/2014

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/apr/02/third-gender-must-be-recognised-by-nsw-after-norrie-wins-legal-battle

Norrie first applied for non-recognition of gender in 2010 following surgery in 1989