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Written submissions to the VLRC inquiry into neighbourhood tree disputes closed on 28 February 2018. Practitioners in this area will await the outcome of the inquiry with bated breath. In the interim, the consultation paper prepared by the Commission contains an impressive recap of the present law, although it will be unsatisfying for the average … Continue reading Neighbourhood Tree Disputes →

This article was originally published in July 2017 on Lexology here. The proceeding was also the subject of a couple of articles by Clay Lucas at The Age, here and here.

This article concerns a Protection Work dispute under the Building Act 1993 (Vic), where a builder had trespassed onto an neighbouring property and cut back the eaves of the house, under a misapprehension that this was allowed under the Protection Work regime. The article was originally published in February 2017 on Lexology here.

This article was originally published in December 2016 on Lexology here. Some of the points were subsequently discussed in an interesting and thought provoking article by Sterling Milller titled "The Future of Artificial Intelligence".