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News and Insights

• Starting a private practice
• Mahoneys featured in LookUpStrata
• Amy O’Donnell featured in the Informer
• Buying a business – legal due diligence series – Part 3 (structure, risk and litigation)
• Mahoneys named Law Firm of the Year
• Mahoneys featured in Resort News
• Boosting a physician’s financial health
• Landlords beware: is your security really secure?
• Uber payroll tax decision – does it affect medical practices?
• Further payroll tax relief planned for Queensland GP practices
• Preparing to sell
• How long is this going to take?
• ManagementOne Newsletter – Issue 32
• Buying a business – legal due diligence series – Part 2 (property)
• Mahoneys secures important decision for the Management Rights & Strata Industry
• New anti-discrimination laws in Queensland – what you need to know
• Starting a group practice with colleagues
• Buying a business – legal due diligence series – Part 1 (business contracts)
• Right to disconnect laws now in effect
• Mahoneys featured in LookUpStrata
• Dealing with tenants when terminating a scheme for economic reasons
• Webinar: The significance of lot owner motions
• Complete guide to body corporate by-laws
• Complete guide to assigning management rights agreements
• Updated Property Occupations Form 6 – Appointments
• Is your head in the cloud?
• ManagementOne Newsletter – Issue 31
• Complete guide to varying management right agreements
• Mahoneys acts in the liquidation of a Brisbane based hospitality group
• Optimising an experienced physician’s financial affairs
• Mahoneys featured in Resort News
• Can management rights be topped up more than once?
• An Evening With Mahoneys
• Mahoneys acts on winding up of Descon Group Australia
• New commercial litigation partner named among three promotions
• Mahoneys welcomes 4 new lawyers
• Mahoneys named among the Best Law Firms in Australia
• Right of Entry Agreements – what are they?
• Payroll tax relief for GPs in Victoria and South Australia
• Mahoneys Featured In LookUpStrata
• How to deal with nuisance correspondence?
• Mahoneys featured in Resort News
• Optimising a physician’s financial affairs when transitioning into retirement
• Mahoneys recognised in Doyles
• Mahoney recognised in Best Lawyers®
• Individuals signing deeds electronically – in which states?
• Renovating a lot in a body corporate
• Smoke alarm compliance
• Stage 2 Rental Reforms
• Your work, or a specialist?
• ManagementOne Newsletter – Issue 30
• Responsibility for utility infrastructure maintenance
• Transitioning into private practice
• BCCMA Changes Start 1 May 2024
• Mahoneys featured in LookUpStrata
• Important Employment and Workplace Changes
• Star Ratings – Are they still relevant?
• Statutory Reviews – A process for changing your caretaking agreement
• Mahoneys featured in resort news
• The benefits of a testamentary trust
• The importance of the “first right of refusal”
• Mahoneys promotes 2 lawyers
• Mahoneys donates $5000 to the Mater Foundation
• Key employment changes as we close out 2023
• Mahoneys assist family business with estate planning
• Mahoneys supports the medical industry
• Statutory Remuneration Review Process
• Know your dates – options, top-ups, variations, extensions?
• ManagementOne Newsletter – Issue 29
• Mahoneys acts on renewable energy projects
• Mahoneys featured in LookUpStrata
• Boosting a physician’s financial health
• New body corporate legislation – what smoking, parking and pet by-laws do you need for your scheme?
• Mahoneys featured in LookUpStrata
• Starting a Private Practice
• Body Corporate and Community Management and Other Legislation Amendment Bill 2023
• Mahoneys featured in Resort News
• Mahoneys named Law Firm of the Year
• Importance of choosing the right module
• The importance of master keys
• ManagementOne Newsletter – Issue 28
• Antony Harrison celebrates 25 years as an Australian lawyer
• Changes to the Property Law Act and the impact on motel leases
• Body Corporate By-Law Webinar
• Important Payroll Tax Webinar
• Mahoneys was featured in LookUpStrata magazine
• Payroll Tax: Qld Ruling assists medical practices
• Save yourself a world of pain with a shareholders agreement
• Mahoneys featured in Resort News
• Favourable payroll tax ruling to be issued next week
• Waterproofing maintenance in bodies corporate
• Starting a Group Private Practice with Colleagues
• Umbrella agreements under the microscope
• Body Corporate Building Defects
• BCCMA – What is changing?
• Mahoneys welcomes 2 new lawyers
• John Mahoney receives Lifetime of Service Award
• Optimising a physician’s financial affairs when transitioning into retirement
• Mahoneys celebrates 20 years in business
• Mahoneys featured in Resort News
• Mahoneys Promotes 3 Lawyers
• Building defects and the Caretaker’s Role
• Body Corporate Consent
• ManagementOne Newsletter – Issue 27
• Management Rights Variations and Extensions
• Mahoneys featured in LookUpStrata
• Mahoneys welcomes new body corporate lawyer
• Optimising a physician’s financial affairs
• Starting a private medical practice
• Landlord’s consent to the assignment of lease
• Mahoneys featured in Resort News
• Starting a private medical practice
• Mahoneys recognised in Doyles
• Mahoneys recognised in Best Lawyers®
• Guide to Managing Body Corporate Building Defects
• What to do after someone dies
• Residential Tenancy Amendments – Minimum Housing Standards
• Talk less, smile more!
• ManagementOne Newsletter – Issue 26
• Mahoneys promotes Sabrina Austin
• Who can be on a body corporate committee
• Decoding body corporate management contracts
• Mahoneys featured in Resort News
• Mahoneys featured in LookUpStrata Magazine
• An enduring power of attorney (EPOA) and what it means to you
• Thomas & Naaz update: Court of Appeal suggests mechanism where payroll tax is not payable!
• Changes to the unfair contract term regime commence this year
• The importance of making sure your builder is licensed
• Payroll tax amnesty for GPs – what does it mean?
• Mahoneys closes $10m capital raise for tech start-up
• What does 2023 have in store for bodies corporate
• Mahoneys advises on >100m acquisition of tech business
• Mahoneys secures an important victory for the management rights industry
• Protect your intellectual property from employee/collaborator claims
• QBCC crackdown on non-compliance with combustible cladding checklist
• Mahoneys welcomes Lisa Valentine
• Mahoneys featured in Resort News
• ManagementOne Newsletter – Issue 25
• So what exactly are your duties?
• Management Rights Term Issue – Where are we now?
• Changes to BUGTA – A reform for lot owners
• Trends in management rights fees and charges
• Tips for buying a motel
• Mahoneys featured in LookUpStrata
• Intellectual property and the PPSR: are you registering your security interests properly?
• Mahoneys featured in Resort News
• Protecting the family home
• A director can be personally liable for knowing something, even if they didn’t know
• Interplay between asset protection and estate planning
• An evening with Mahoneys
• New Queensland residential tenancy laws
• Queensland Government’s review into Management Rights
• Buying into a dental practice
• Deadline for obtaining a Director Identification Number
• ManagementOne Newsletter – Issue 24
• Separating to sell
• Residential Tenancy Changes start 1 October 2022
• Asset protection for doctors
• Electric Vehicles in Bodies Corporate
• Mahoneys role in $45m body corporate sale
• What is happening with Term?
• Mahoneys Featured in Resort News
• Mahoneys welcomes 2 new lawyers
• Making a claim against the QBCC
• Noosa short term letting rules challenged in court
• Mahoneys was featured in LookUpStrata magazine
• Mahoneys successfully defends Supreme Court application
• New smoke alarm regulation – are you clear?
• ManagementOne Newsletter – Issue 23
• Can a manager profit from advertising?
• Medical Practice Payroll Tax Decision: Thomas and Naaz Appeal Upheld
• Resident Manager Leave Entitlements
• Mahoneys promotes 4 lawyers
• Importance of good legal diligence before buying a motel
• By-Law Series – Part 4 – Enforcement
• Body Corporate Parking Issues
• Joining a private practice – legal considerations
• Are you complying with new smoke alarm requirements?
• Short-term letting issues
• Article: Bodies Corporate Beware – QBCC delays impacting building defect claims
• Mahoneys prepares ageing scheme for sale to developers
• Mahoneys Recognised In Best Lawyers®
• Mahoneys Recognised In Doyle’s
• Mahoneys welcomes 2 new lawyers
• By-Law Series – Part 3 – By-law limitations continued
• ManagementOne Newsletter – Issue 22
• Don’t let your agreements or appointments let you down!
• Are property prices affecting your letting pool?
• Land Access and Activity Notices (LAANs) – Your Rights
• Contractor or employee? Your contract should spell it out
• Mandatory Director Identification Number – approaching deadlines
• Importance of a good legal due diligence
• By-Law Series – Part 2 – Limitations
• Virtual meetings and electronic execution now permanent
• By-Law Series – Part 1 – What by-laws are legislated to provide for
• Celebrating 20 years in business
• Motel Compliance Obligations
• OCBCCM Decision – Smoking in Bodies Corporate
• Mahoneys featured in Resort News
• Can management rights agreements be “topped-up” more than once?
• Statutory Remuneration Review Process
• What’s new in 2022? Residential Tenancy Amendments!
• ManagementOne Newsletter – Issue 21
• New COVID restrictions for bodies corporate
• Legal disputes in Strata – Part B
• Mahoneys featured in Resort News spotlight series
• Defective building work in the news again
• Strategies for boosting financial wealth
• Legal disputes in Strata – Part A
• Is it better to bestow gifts while you’re alive or in your Will?
• Important Medical Practice Payroll Tax Decision
• Increased protections against unfair contract terms
• ManagementOne Newsletter – Issue 20
• Is your buyer made of the right stuff?
• A valuable lesson for caretakers
• Mandatory Director Identification Numbers
• Can management rights agreements be “topped-up” more than once?
• Article – Can management rights agreements be “topped-up” more than once?
• BCsystems manager forum
• Don’t let your letting appointments let you down!
• Mahoneys featured in Resort News
• Starting a private practice
• Mahoneys supports open letter to governments
• Bodies corporate and Airbnb
• By-laws cannot prevent holiday letting
• Starting a private practice
• What makes a successful resident manager
• Mahoneys featured in Resort News magazine
• Victoria – Update on off-the-plan term limits
• Mahoneys welcomes 3 new lawyers
• Technology and the Corporations Act: recent amendments and what they mean for you
• What to do if you receive a LAAN notice
• Starting a Private Practice
• Service Provider of the Year
• Mahoneys Promotes 3 Lawyers
• Approving major maintenance and improvement projects
• Change to casual employment arrangements
• ManagementOne Newsletter – Issue 19
• Managing Building Defects
• Change to Casual Employment Arrangements
• Application dismissed in Kirribilli Heights adjudication
• Mahoneys presents to RACP members
• Amendments to the Franchising Code: what it means for you
• Franchising Code changes: what it means for you
• Management Rights, Leasebacks & Covid-19
• Mahoneys gets application dismissed in Watermark Residences adjudication
• Watermark Residences – When not to make and adjudication application
• Mahoneys featured in Resort News magazine
• Mahoneys featured in LookUpStrata magazine
• Lease obligations
• Mahoneys enhances its litigation capability
• Guide To Body Corporate Building Defects
• Mahoneys 的贡献得到了小区经理的认可
• Webinar – New Body Corporate Regulations
• How to gift your wealth
• Mahoneys featured in Resort News March 2021
• Setting up a private medical practice
• ManagementOne Newsletter – Issue 18
• Options, top-ups, variations, extensions – what’s the difference?
• New Body Corporate Regulations
• Preparing for the new regulations
• High Court Success for Dr Ridd
• Mahoneys 在牛年新春来临之际给您送祝福啦！
• Preparing for Sale
• Discrimination in Bodies Corporate
• Mahoneys featured in Resort News
• Are you ready for the new regulation modules?
• 超过 100 名小区经理参MAHONEYS 圣诞活动
• ManagementOne Newsletter – Issue 17
• Understanding your caretaking duties
• Is your buyer up to scratch?
• Over 100 managers attend Mahoneys event
• Unfair contract term laws: important changes and IP agreements
• Leasing or licencing common property
• Presumption of Regularity in Bodies Corporate
• Mahoneys secures a victory for its clients in the Supreme Court
• Selling common property
• Business interruption insurance and COVID-19
• Car park reconfiguration
• 31 December 2020 Deadline – amend your trust deed to avoid extra duty and land tax for residential property in New South Wales
• Payroll Tax Alert
• Mahoneys Antony Harrison participates in ‘Starting in Private Practice’ webinar
• A duty exemption for small business restructures – at last!
• Removing an elected Body Corporate Committee Member
• Marina berths in bodies corporate
• Protecting your trade mark
• Temporary relief for bodies corporate
• Caretaking agreements and negative inflation
• Senior Appointments
• New Body Corporate Laws
• BodyCorporateONE Newsletter – September 2020
• Defamation in bodies corporate
• Development offences in bodies corporate
• Recovering body corporate costs from owners
• Changing the body corporate’s financial year
• Educating new entrants and making assignments easier
• Management rights assignments for bodies corporate
• Maintenance obligations
• Dealing with Body Corporate disputes
• BodyCorporateONE Newsletter – July 2020
• ARAMA Award
• Update to social distancing requirements applying to bodies corporate
• Maintenance obligations
• Dealing with Body Corporate Disputes
• Social distancing requirements for bodies corporate?
• Managers Must Not Project Manage
• Short Term Letting Businesses – Are You Good To Go?
• Mahoneys fighting for managers
• ManagementOne Newsletter – Issue 16
• The first virtual general meeting has been challenged
• New guidance on patenting computer-implemented inventions (Commissioner of Patents v Rokt Pte Ltd [2020] FCAFC 86)
• Retail Shop Leases and Other Commercial Leases (COVID-19 Emergency Response) Regulation 2020
• Making sure your by-laws are correct
• Statutory reviews – a process to change your caretaking agreement
• BodyCorporateONE Newsletter – May 2020
• Urgent changes to the Body Corporate and Community Management Act
• Reopening pools in a body corporate because of COVID-19
• New guidance on patenting computer-implemented inventions (Facebook, Inc. [2020] APO 19)
• Management rights options and variations during COVID-19
• Liability for Building Defects
• Body corporate spending limits
• Covid-19 – Residential Tenancies
• Body corporate cost cutting during COVID-19
• Levy recovery during COVID-19
• Closing facilities in a body corporate
• Non-contact estate planning during COVID-19
• How to manage work orders during COVID-19
• UPDATE – Fair Work Commission amends 99 awards during COVID -19 outbreak
• COVID-19 guidance for bodies corporate
• Management Rights and the Coronavirus – some guidance amongst the uncertainty
• Asset protection: the banks and what you need to know about structuring your financial affairs
• Bankruptcy: Equitable interests in the matrimonial home
• Mahoneys supports SCA conference
• BodyCorporateOne Newsletter – March 2020
• The limits of committee powers
• Rights over common property
• Supporting the medical industry
• Mahoneys acts on sale of a cyber security and ICT business
• What health care practices should consider when engaging practitioners
• New risks for body corporate managers who carry out secretary duties
• Section 73 composition set aside by the Federal Court
• Statutory Remuneration Review Process
• You Cannot Be Serious!
• ManagementOne Newsletter – Issue 15
• Todd Garsden joins Mahoneys
• Transfer pricing laws and why it’s time to review your profits
• War on illegal phoenix activity: what you need to know about the new laws
• Amy O’Donnell joins Mahoneys
• Supporting the Management Rights Industry
• Victoria to limit term of management rights agreements
• When can you patent an invention implemented by a computer – Encompass Corporation v InfoTrack (September 2019)
• Mahoneys helps sell Aegean Management Rights to consortium of investors
• The serviced office model and payroll tax exposure: What medical practices need to know
• Over 130 caretakers attend Mahoneys compliance event
• Mahoneys secures $220,000 compensation for wrongful termination
• The crucial difference between exercising options and top-ups
• ManagementOne Newsletter – Issue 14
• Avoiding disputes
• Stop reading this article
• Mahoneys awarded Service Provider of the Year
• Guide to Health Privacy
• Mahoneys’ $1.2 million victory in Ridd case
• Commissioner’s discretion to extend the two year period to disregard capital gains tax in relation to the disposal of dwellings acquired from a deceased estate
• What the end of NRAS Means for Management Rights
• Assignments made difficult
• ManagementOne Newsletter – Issue 13
• Medicare shared debt “claw back” scheme
• Trade mark intra-group licensing – control your trade marks
• Published Australian Patent Office decisions – February 2019 Review
• Everything managers need to know about voting
• Published Australian Patent Office decisions – January 2019 Review
• Anti-competition laws will soon apply to IP arrangements
• Be careful: your Personal Property Security Register (PPSR) registrations may lapse soon
• ManagementOne Newsletter Rebranded Issue 12
• The compliance challenge
• Mahoneys secures costs for resident manager in landmark QCAT victory
• Why a lot owner deed is so important
• Implications for business when Australia implements APEC’s Cross Border Privacy Rules System next year
• The role of the Enduring Power of Attorney in relation to binding death benefit nominations
• Unpacking recent changes to Australia’s IP legislation
• Medical practice structuring and home ownership
• Three strikes and you’re out – but only if you play fair
• War, what is it good for?
• A matter of trust: the fiduciary duties of body corporate committees
• Mahoneys 又一次为小区经理取得胜利
• Mahoneys wins again for resident managers
• 行业快讯： 小区经理遭到Committee欺压怎么办?
• Industry update: Caretaker bullying by bodies corporate
• Franchise agreements, trade marks and Australian consumer law
• ManagementOne Newsletter Rebranded Issue 11
• The goose, the golden egg and the assignment
• Uncertainty around short term letting
• Queensland caretakers win again
• The lesson of Lululemon – exchanges, returns and consumer guarantees
• The power of appointment of trusts
• ManagementOne Newsletter Issue 10 – 中文
• Development Approval – enforcement orders
• Vicarious liability
• Recent victories for managers
• Sellers beware
• Forget It!
• ManagementOne Newsletter Rebranded Issue 10
• Mahoneys secures important – business saving – Christmas victory for caretaker
• Get that top up right!
• What an affidavit is and how is one taken?
• Exciting changes to bankruptcy to promote entrepreneurial activity
• Companies and directors rejoice – “Safe Harbour” and “Ipso Facto” becomes law
• When a judgment isn’t the end
• Off the plan – off the boil?
• Multiple versions of POA Form 6 causing unnecessary concern
• Lessons from The Rocks
• ManagementOne Newsletter Rebranded Issue 9
• Body Corporate Debt Recovery Changes: Good or Bad?
• When a deposit is paid by electronic transfer, when is it legally considered ‘paid’?
• Bodies corporate may now have a tougher time recovering costs
• Star Ratings System scrapped – What does this mean for your agreements?
• Mahoneys secure massive win for managements rights industry
• What is accessorial liability?
• Budget news
• Why you need expertise up front
• Dealing with breach notices
• Exercising options
• Another big management rights win for Mahoneys
• PPSA Guide
• Buyer beware: the definition of a ‘foreign person’ goes further than we think for duty and land tax purposes
• Anti-bullying at work laws can apply to bodies corporate and caretakers too
• What have I bought?
• The importance of letting appointments
• I want my top up
• Bodies Corporate and the obligation to act reasonably
• Unfair contract terms outlawed when dealing with small business
• Bankruptcy and inheritance: who gets what and what you can do about it
• Kleenmaid director sentenced to 9 years jail
• Late payment fees upheld by High Court
• When all else fails, do you sack the committee?
• High Court to determine unreasonableness test
• What you must do before going into business
• Internal promotion at Mahoneys
• Compliance deadlines loom for SMSF’s as 30 June approaches
• Can a class 3 building be used for long term residential use?
• Tax law amendment smooths way for small business restructuring
• Making the most from POA
• Releases clause – special rules about interpretation