The Department of Business and Innovation has invited submissions on proposed Retail Leases Regulations and a Regulatory Impact Statement. The Department’s website states that: The objectives of these regulations are to: make provision with respect to the amount of the occupancy costs for the purpose of excluding certain retail premises from the Retail Leases Act […]

In an interesting recent decision, Garde J in the Victorian Supreme Court: confirmed that distress for rent remains abolished in Victoria, despite the repeal of the Landlord and Tenant Act 1958 (Vic); and found that a lien in a lease over goods left behind by a tenant is effective, provided that it crystallised after re-entry and […]