The Victorian Government has announced plans to increase sentences for offenders who attack police, ambulance officers, fire fighters and other emergency workers, including nurses and doctors in hospital emergency departments.
Under the intended legislation, people who inflict serious injury on an emergency worker will attract an automatic additional twelve-month imprisonment, in addition to whatever sentence would
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Supporting the Cyberknife Cancer Treatment Petition
Cyberknife is a new technology for the treatment of cancer. Currently available in twenty-six other countries around the world, its introduction in Australia could be significant in helping many in their fight against a terrible disease. Melbourne’s leading cancer treatment hospital, the Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre, is pursuing the new technology.
However, in addition to the
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New Edition of Legal Insight
We’ve just released the autumn edition of the Legal Insight newsletter!
Topics in in this issue include:
- Securing Against Customer Insolvency
- What Happens To Facebook When you Die
- New Business Names Register
- Buying A House
- When The Chips Are Down…
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Digital Estate Planning
What Happens to Facebook When You Die?
When young American soldier Justin Ellsworth was tragically killed by a roadside bomb in Iraq in 2004, his family were forced to begin the painful process of wrapping up his estate. Their problems multiplied, however, when they tried to deal with his email account, only to discover that Yahoo
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