In wake of the World Health Organisation declaring COVID-19 (Novel Coronavirus) a pandemic, many workplaces have responded to help stop the spread of the virus by changing their working arrangements, with many industries making the move to work from home.However, not all workplaces have been able to work online. Service industries such as retail and hospitality have been … [Read more...]
About Chantal El Khoury
#QuickLaw: Can You Legally Use An Expired Gift Voucher?
Imagine happening upon a $200 gift card from Christmas only to discover that you missed the expiration date by one day!You enter the store and are faced with a smug sales assistant who refuses to redeem your card. The store retains your $200 credit without providing any goods or services in return. Unfortunately, it's a scenario that plays out every day at thousands of … [Read more...]
#PopLaw: How Emojis Are Creeping Into The Courtroom
ccording to Professor Vyvyan Evans, an expert in language and communication, we are now living in the ‘age of emoji’ where the ‘stratospheric rise of emoji’ largely fulfils the function of non-verbal cues in spoken communication.The nature of modern communication in hyper-shortened digital snippets has made it more challenging than ever before to convey our true non-verbal … [Read more...]
Long-Overdue Review Into Family Law System Announced
n May this year, the Turnbull Government announced the first ever comprehensive review of Australia's family law system and an $80 million injection of funding to frontline family law and family violence services.Last week, Attorney-General George Brandis commissioned the Australian Law Reform Commission (ALRC) to undertake the first comprehensive … [Read more...]
Victorian Bail System Reforms: A Band-Aid Solution To Open Heart Surgery
s community safety too often outweighed by the presumption of innocence for serious repeat offenders in bail decisions? Do bail decision-makers lose sight of the proper balance that needs to be achieved and too readily grant bail, even for repeat serious offenders? Have governments paid sufficient attention to community concerns about repeat offenders committing serious … [Read more...]
Bucket Intell-O-gence: Can You Sue For Finding A Foreign Object In Your Food?
magine finding something that has no rightful place in your food while brunching this weekend. A piece of plastic or glass sitting incongruously atop your smashed avo? Or maybe a strand of dirty hair so grotesquely curled around your poached eggs that it triggers an uncontrollable upchuck reflex? Perhaps a worm or spider smugly unfolds itself from your pile of … [Read more...]
#LawReform: Victoria’s Defective Bail System A Threat To Public Safety In Wake Of Bourke Street Attack
Personal safety is a fundamental human right.But how safe can we feel when potentially dangerous criminals are wrongly released on bail? The increasing frequency of terrorist-inspired attacks leaves many of us fearing that at any given moment a criminal who should, by most people’s standards, be in jail could be roaming the streets and ready to harm innocent people.The … [Read more...]
Gen Y Financial Guides: Money Health Check
en Y. We are the generation that doesn’t settle, who love to travel and are all about finding and pursuing our passion.Switching careers, starting a business, studying, and travelling the globe are what we value most and prioritise. We choose to spend our money living in the moment and accumulating experiences, rather than planning for the future. As a result, maintaining … [Read more...]