by nyst-admin | 27/05/2020 | Business, Commercial Law, Litigation
Perhaps not surprisingly, I’ve been deluged recently with enquiries from small business operators and commercial space landlords about rental relief in the time of COVID-19. For those affected, here’s a quick snapshot of what’s on offer. The right to...
by nyst-admin | 15/04/2020 | Business, Commercial Law, Dispute Resolution, Wills and Estates
Biologist, historian and futurist H G Wells, author of the sci-fi classic The War of the Worlds – a tale of alien invasion and annihilation by pathogen – once famously wrote “Adapt or perish, is nature’s inexorable imperative.” It could be very good advice...
by nyst-admin | 16/08/2019 | Commercial Law, Litigation
China has yet again cemented its reputation as the great 21st-century innovator by coming up with a novel new way of convincing its citizens to honour their legal and community responsibilities. In the interests of encouraging wayward debtors to pay their dues,...
by nyst-admin | 18/05/2017 | Commercial Law, Criminal Law, Defamation, Dispute Resolution, Employment Law, Family Law, Litigation, Traffic Law
Nyst Legal is recognised as one of Queensland’s leading criminal and regulatory law firms.Whilst we have been based on the Gold Coast for the past four decades we have always practised extensively in all Brisbane courts, as well as those in other metropolitan and...
by nyst-admin | 11/08/2015 | Commercial Law, Dispute Resolution
Last month the Nyst Legal commercial litigation team spent nearly two weeks in the Federal Court in Melbourne, flanked by a phalanx of QC’s, arguing the toss about exactly how far businesses can and can’t go in talking up their product to the customers of...
by nyst | 09/08/2014 | Commercial Law, Opinion
As a novelist and film-maker, and advisor to a singer-songwriter son heavily involved in the music industry here in Australia as well as internationally, copyright is a subject near and dear to my heart. I’ve learned from bitter experience that the golden rule for any...