What’s mak­ing headlines?

Michael Byrnes dis­cuss­es the issue of employ­ees v inde­pen­dent con­trac­tors in the ​“gig economy”

The ​‘gig econ­o­my’ is a by-prod­uct of dis­rup­tive com­pa­nies and it’s rais­ing ques­tions for gov­ern­ments and employ­ment law experts. Are work­ers sole traders? Are they inde­pen­dent con­trac­tors? Are they employ­ees? Deliv­eroo is push­ing for a ​‘third way’ of legal­ly defin­ing con­tract work­ers, which would allow com­pa­nies to pro­vide some ben­e­fits –…

2019 a year of oppor­tu­ni­ties and growth

Whilst increased com­pe­ti­tion, dis­rup­tion and con­sol­i­da­tion con­tin­ue to play out through­out the legal sec­tor, our posi­tion in the mar­ket place of serv­ing entre­pre­neurs, busi­ness­es, inno­va­tors, fam­i­lies offices, fam­i­lies and gov­ern­ment remains in grow­ing demand. High­lights includ­ed help­ing a glob­al client with their nation­al busi­ness mod­el roll-out, work­ing with a num­ber of prop­er­ty…

Pod­cast | How do courts bal­ance reli­gious beliefs against the best inter­ests of a child?

Fam­i­ly Law leg­is­la­tion dic­tates that a court’s para­mount con­sid­er­a­tion should be the best inter­ests of a child, and there are numer­ous fac­tors that a court will take into account in mak­ing such deter­mi­na­tions. But, in par­ent­ing dis­putes, what hap­pens if the par­ents can­not agree on the reli­gious upbring­ing of a child? Can a court deter­mine…

Swaab assists in the glob­al acqui­si­tion of CMS Hospitality

MON­TRE­AL, Dec. 03, 2018 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Val­soft Cor­po­ra­tion Inc. (“Val­soft”), a Mon­tréal-based com­pa­ny that spe­cial­izes in the acqui­si­tion and devel­op­ment of ver­ti­cal mar­ket soft­ware busi­ness­es, is pleased to announce the acqui­si­tion of CMS Hos­pi­tal­i­ty, an Aus­tralia-based hos­pi­tal­i­ty soft­ware solu­tions provider with clients across 25 coun­tries. Under the agree­ment, Val­soft acquires…

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