HESKETH HENRY 2009 NEWS ARCHIVES

Limiting Flow-on Effects of Contractor Insolvency
You are the subcontractor and supplier of tiles to the cladding contractor on a major commercial construction project. Midway through the project, one of your payment claims is not paid. Some weeks later, you learn that the cladding contractor has had a receiver appointed. You have unpaid payment claims outstanding and have delivered tiles to the cladding contractor which are yet to be installed. What can you do?…Read More »

How Flexible do Employers need to be?
Worried about just how flexible you will have to be under the new Employment Relations (Flexible Working Arrangements) Amendment Act 2007? Don’t be … Alison Maelzer, Senior Solicitor at Hesketh Henry, highlights key aspects of the new legislation and finds that it’s not as onerous as it first appears…Read More »

Incapacity - it's enough to make you sick!
In the recent Resturant Association publication – The Tymes – Alison Maelzer talks about how to deal with an employee’s long-term illness and effects of this sensitive issue. Read More »

 
Better understanding leads to more effective law
Lawyers need to have a greater understanding of a client’s business if they are to continue to play a key advisory role in their affairs.“Knowing the law isn’t enough any more,” says Hesketh Henry Managing Partner, Erich Bachmann... Read More »
 
Too many business owners avoiding succession
Now that you've built up a great business, what are you going to do with it? Succession planning is essential for all business owners and the sooner you start the better prepared you will be... Read More »
 

Investor Losses: A Fruitful Ground for Class Actions?

In tough economic times when share prices fall, corporate profits drop and companies edge towards insolvency, investors can face the depressing reality of dwindling retirement portfolios. Whether they have invested in residential properties, the debt of now struggling financial institutions or the shares of a failing company, many investors are questioning the advice and information they were given and whether they can recover some of their losses from any of the advisers, directors or executives involved. Read More »

 



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