On 19 July 2010 William Susanto instructed counsel in the Supreme Court of NSW to register in New South Wales a Solomon Islands judgment so that the client could recover his judgment debt in New South Wales.

A Sydney organisation that assists people who have been injured in motor vehicle or industrial accidents, is beginning to expand its work to help those that are in difficulty with financial institutions. The organisation has asked Jackson Lalic to help with this expansion in their activities. All of us at Jackson Lalic are delighted to be involved in more work that will assist borrowers understand the financial transaction that they have entered into and where possible, assist them with dealing with the financial institutions with which they have relationships.

In recent weeks Jackson Lalic has received instructions from a number of farming families wanting to have a farmer initiated farm debt mediation to rearrange the farming business including the reorganisation of the banking arrangements of the family.

At the end of last week Peter Jackson returned from China. During his trip, Peter was a judge at the Second China University English Language Negotiation Competition.

As part of our support for the Lightning Ridge community, we are pleased to let all of the readers of our blog know that Lightning Ridge indigenous artist, Johanna Parker, is having a solo exhibition at the Brewarrina Visitors Information Centre commencing on 6 August 2010.

On 1 July 2010, changes to the Trade Practices Act come into force. These are national unfair contract provisions. They will apply to both new consumer contracts and those renewed or varied on or after commencement. All businesses should immediately review their standard form consumer contracts to ensure that the terms comply with the new legislation.

Andrew We Min Lee will be meeting old clients of Jackson Lalic shortly to explore helping them introduce a revolutionary water management technology into China.

On Friday 7 May 2010, William Susanto prepared an urgent injunction application to restrain a landlord from taking possession of a leased business because of the state of the building. William briefed Counsel to appear before the Court for the urgent hearing. To the relief of the client tenant, William and the barrister he briefed, were successful.

Over recent weeks we have been working on our website. We hope that the content on the website is now more up to date and of more use to visitors to the site. Although the work is not finished we hope there has been an improvement.

Jackson Lalic have been appointed the solicitors for the Australian Employee Buyout Centre. The Centre will assist companies that are not doing well to rearrange their affairs so that employees take a stake in the company and hopefully help the business survive. We are delighted to be involved in this important work.