News, Updates and information from and about Smokeball.
August 24, 2011 Leave a comment
I’ve had a few questions recently about whether I plan to offer some PPSA precedent documents through Smokeball. Read on, and you’ll see that I do have some relatively limited plans to do so. But some of the questions set me thinking that there may be some basic misconceptions about what the PPSA does and does not cause to happen. And the consequences. Read more of this post
August 8, 2011 Leave a comment
For those who don’t know you, can you tell us a little bit about yourself?
I am married to Anne and have four sons and a daughter. My family hails from Northern New South Wales but I only went to school there for one year. I did most of my secondary schooling in Singapore. I have lived most of my life in Brisbane. Read more of this post
August 5, 2011 Leave a comment
After a long and difficult battle, my university finally succumbed, and I became a graduand for a Master of Dispute Resolution (with Honours).
The ceremonial instructions displayed a typical lack of humour (with a touch of passive voice): “You must return your academic dress … within one hour of the close of your graduation ceremony … By hiring the academic dress, you agree [we are] entitled to charge you the full purchase price … if it is not returned by the return time.” Read more of this post
August 4, 2011 1 Comment
The concept of a trust has a long history in the law. Its greatest claim to fame is as a weapon by which the conscience of Equity could master the harshness of the Common Law. Whilst the Common Law might demand that T be regarded as the legal owner of Blackacre, Equity would impose a trust in favour of B, and T would be deemed to hold that bare legal interest on behalf of B, the true beneficial owner. Read more of this post
August 1, 2011 Leave a comment
As you probably already know, the PPSA – the Personal Property Securities Act 2009 (Cth) – is a single national law governing security interests in personal property. It’ll regulate all kinds of security interests in (virtually) all kinds of personal property. It addresses the complexity of over 70 Commonwealth, State and Territory laws, common law rules and rules of equity by replacing them with a single set of relatively straightforward rules. Read more of this post
