Code for Australia and Victoria Legal Aid launch new online checker.Code for Australia (CfA) and Victoria Legal Aid (VLA) have just released a new online tool designed to make it easier for community members to gain access to legal assistance.The new technology was developed through the Code for Victoria Innovation Challenge with the ultimate goal of … [Read more...]
Law Clouds: Anne Marie Cade Talks Online Divorce, Legal Entrepreneurship & A Friendlier Way To Separate
Law Clouds: Anne Marie Cade Talks Online Divorce, Legal Entrepreneurship & A Friendlier Way To SeparateBucketOrangeDecember 2016In the December Issue of BucketOrange Magazine, we chat with Anne Marie Cade – founder of award-winning online divorce platform DivorceRight – about her love of law, technology and a holistic approach to separation in Australia. Can you tell … [Read more...]
Lawyer-Led Tech Startup Offers Online Compliance Training For Small Businesses
Starting a business is a calculated risk. It involves weighing relative costs and benefits, assessing known financial risks, seeking advice from trusted sources, accepting uncertainty and pushing ahead anyway. Most startup owners are big advocates of 'when you need it' learning. This usually involves learning something 'on the run' and finding out what you need to know about … [Read more...]
Mark Ronson And Bruno Mars “Funked Up” (Again) Over Copyright Claim
In the latest music industry lawsuit to hit headlines, Bruno Mars and Mark Ronson are being sued for copyright infringement by 80s electro-funk band Collage, according to TMZ.Collage claims that the hit track "Uptown Funk" released by Bruno Mars and Mark Ronson in 2014 is a thinly veiled replica of Collage's 1983 hit “Young Girls” and that the duo reproduced the song's … [Read more...]
Outsmarting ‘The Nothing’, Workplace Apathy & Keeping It Together In A Job You Hate
Staying in the same job for too long can start to feel like Groundhog Day. You find yourself doing the same repetitive tasks over and over again. You get a coffee, you greet your superiors, you plough through the day and pray for mercy that you can get out the office before 7.00pm to salvage some semblance of a social life (or counterbalance all those hours hunched over your … [Read more...]
Now You Can Reclaim Cash From Your Forgotten Credit Card Subscriptions
The new app is free and it saves you money! here is no feeling that is more demoralising than the slow and soul destroying realisation that you have just paid $59 for a one month Australian Financial Review subscription you did not want.Of course, you wanted it when it was free! In fact, you revelled in the novelty of having top end reading materials during … [Read more...]
Australian Legal Writer’s Challenge Now Open!
Have you always longed for a platform to show off your writing talents and earn some cash?Now is your time to shine.Go To Court Lawyers have just thrown open the doors on the first Australian Legal Writer's Challenge.Budding writers who hold an Australian law degree, or are in their final year of an Australian law degree, are invited to enter the competition by … [Read more...]
Sexual Consent Dyslexia: Why “No” Does Not Mean “Yes”
video by the Thames Valley Police brilliantly captures the issue of sexual consent using the analogy of making a cup of tea.The short film features stick people, together with a simple narration and cycles through some of the main scenarios where consent lines can blur and potentially lead to coercion, manipulation, sexual assault, rape and, in many cases, … [Read more...]
Career Lawgic: Email Template For Following Up On A Job Application
rom the time we wake in the morning until the minute we go to sleep, most of us are bombarded by emails, texts and social media messages.It is relentless, distracting and exhausting.Technology allows us to check email and draft an immediate response anytime and anywhere. While queuing for our morning coffee, while waiting at a pedestrian crossing, or even while killing … [Read more...]
Lawdable Behaviour: Being Likeable In Business And Honouring Your Commitments
he core principles of most mutually enjoyable human interactions are pretty simple:Be nice Practise respect Be genuinely interested in the other person Show gratitudeGenerally, extending basic courtesies to others will result in those same decencies being mirrored back two fold. In other words, the type of energy you project in your … [Read more...]
Bucket Intell-O-gence: Nurofen Gets $1.7m Slapdown For Misleading Consumers
Reckitt Benckiser, the maker of Nurofen, has been fined $1.7 million dollars for breaching consumer laws.Last year, the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) launched proceedings against the makers of Nurofen in the Federal Court.Sections 18 and 33 of Australian Consumer Law prohibit businesses from:engaging in misleading and deceptive conduct; … [Read more...]
Travel Hacks: Millennial Guides For Booking Cheap Flights
You probably set yourself some pretty ambitious goals earlier this year:Find a new job (one that challenges and interests you - hopefully it pays better than your current role); Lock in some adventure travel plans (or, at the very least, plan more weekend mini-breaks); Spend less money on nights out, gigs and festivals; Spend more money on sensible life planning … [Read more...]
Criminal On 34th Street: The Surprising Victims Of Santa Crime
or centuries, Santa Claus has symbolised the fun and merriment of Christmas.He wears a jolly suit. He rides a jolly sleigh. He and his reindeer visit every child, around the world, on the eve of Christmas day.Once a year this benevolent fellow also enters your home, drinks your milk, eats your biscuits and deposits presents under your tree ... all while you slumber … [Read more...]
Lawfunder’s Sean Roche Proves That You Don’t Need A Reason To Help People
n the November Issue of BucketOrange Magazine, we get an exclusive peek inside the busy life of social entrepreneur and LawFunder founder, Sean Roche, to talk about his new legal crowdfunding site, balancing full-time work with startup life and his advice for young legal entrepreneurs. What is LawFunder and when did you launch? "Lawfunder is Australia’s first online … [Read more...]
Laws Of Travel: What Travel Credit Card Is The Best Value
In the end we only regret the chances we did not take.Travel is a wonderful and exhilarating adventure. But adventures and surprises often go hand in hand. Some surprises, like killer cases of food poisoning on a road trip are random, cruel and largely beyond our control. Other surprises, like a sobering roundhouse kick to your wallet by accumulated foreign transaction … [Read more...]
#bucketOpinion: Can There Be Any ‘True’ Refugees In A Migrant Crisis?
2015 has been a year of mass migrations.Between January to August 2015, 350,000 irregular migrants entered Europe. An estimated 800,000 migrants seeking asylum are expected to arrive in Germany alone this year.With only four mass migrations occurring in Europe in recorded history, what can be done with so many people in a modern migrant crisis?And who … [Read more...]
#LifeSupportForYourWallet: When Can You Seek A Store Refund?
ow many times have you seen a 'no refund' sign in a shop?Of those times, how often would you think to question its accuracy?If you're not fully informed, information that is in public places, made by a public figure or someone in a position of authority can seem deceptively plausible. I've never really wanted to go to Japan, simply because I don't like eating fish and … [Read more...]
Laws Of The Political Jungle Vol 2 – How Australian Legislation Is Made
In Laws Of The Political Jungle Vol 1, we took you on a Parliamentary Safari that analogised the Marriage Equality Bill as a young zebra navigating the lions of the House of Representatives and crocodiles of the Senate in the context of:the role politicians play in whether a Bill is passed; and what rules govern whether a proposed Bill lives or dies.In Laws Of The … [Read more...]
Rental Guides For Gen Y: 6 Signs Your Landlord Is Ripping You Off
In New South Wales, most tenancy agreements are governed by the Residential Tenancies Act. This gives certain rights and responsibilities to both tenants and landlords. But let’s be honest- not all landlords do the right thing and it is important to be aware of your rights as a tenant.If you are one of the 4.5 million people living in rental accommodation in Australia, here … [Read more...]
Laws Of The Political Jungle: The Marriage Equality Bill
To everyday Australians, the inner workings of Parliament House can seem complex and confusing.When it comes to making Australian laws:what role do politicians play in the life cycle of a Bill? what rules govern whether a proposed Bill lives or dies? how are laws actually made?In the first of our Laws Of The Political Jungle series, we provide a … [Read more...]