For those who have not seen it but still want to, here is the link to last week’s webinar that Abilene Singh and I presented: https://www.greenslist.com.au/media/Coronavirus-and-Victorian-retail-and-commercial-tenancies Links to our slides and the Commonwealth Code are attached to the last couple of posts on this blog, which you should have to hand when viewing the webinar. […]

The New South Wales government has produced regulations to give effect to the National Cabinet Mandatory Code of Conduct for landlords and tenants. We have not yet see the Victorian equivalent and it is not clear whether Victoria’s regulations will follow a similar model or take a different approach.  However, it is already apparent that […]

To add to my technical woes today, my PowerPoint slides did not attach to my last post. Here they are: COVID-19 webinar (24 April 2020) After the technophobic day that I have had, all I can say is … TGIF! Stay safe and keep practicing your social distancing, folks.

OK, so we had some technical problems in today’s webinar.  Thanks for those who attended and sorry we left you hanging on the line. We recorded the webinar and it is being edited.  We expect to post it in the next few days.  I will post a link when it is available. In the meantime, […]

The much-anticipated emergency measures Bill has been tabled in Victorian Parliament today to create legislation to give effect to the Code and was passed this afternoon. However, the Act is only ‘enabling legislation’, ie it is legislation that allows the creation of regulations that give effect to the Code, recently published by the National Cabinet. […]

At 1:00pm on 24 April 2020, Abilene Singh and I will be presenting a webinar on the COVID-19 legislation that is expected to be debated before Victorian Parliament on Thursday, 23 April, and on related topics. For those interested in attending the webinar, the details are: Coronavirus and Victorian retail and commercial tenancies   This […]

Bills have been tabled before the Western Australian Parliament to enact the WA State Government’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic with respect to commercial tenancies. The Bills are available here: https://www.parliament.wa.gov.au/Parliament/Bills.nsf/ED7097E743C7BC2D4825854C00102B97/$File/186-1.pdf https://www.parliament.wa.gov.au/Parliament/Bills.nsf/7CDCFDA8EE2BA09C4825854C00139362/$File/188-1.pdf  Highlights of the WA Bills are: It applies to small commercial tenants, which is defined by reference to other WA legislation.  It is […]

There has been a lot of press over the last 24 hours about the Victorian Government’s new measures for landlords and tenants. There were two relevant press releases yesterday: one announcing the emergency sitting of Victorian Parliament, available here: https://www.premier.vic.gov.au/emergency-sitting-of-the-victorian-parliament-next-week/ the second announcing the State government stimulus to support landlords and tenants, available here: https://www.premier.vic.gov.au/supporting-tenants-and-landlords-through-coronavirus/ […]

A UK colleague has suggested another line of argument for the COVID-19 issue that has not received a lot of airtime in Australia – at least, not that I have seen, stuck here in my living room! The author argues that there may be a judge or two willing, when faced with the right lease […]

The Victorian Premier announced today that Parliament is sitting on Thursday, 23 April 2020 to debate ‘an ominbus of bills’. Among those bills is expected to be a bill giving effect to the National Cabinet Mandatory Code of Conduct for landlords and tenants that was discussed in an earlier post. As usual, I will keep my […]