Indemnities: misunderstood and often ignored!
Indemnities are often the least understood clause in the retail lease. So says John Morrison. In this article, he looks at the topic and cautions both lessors and lessees to...
Change – how will it affect you? Amendments to the Retail Leases Act 1994 (NSW)
We are all familiar with the frustration often created by the application of retail lease legislation and the impact that it has upon the ability of the...
Turnover rent what does the future hold?
Does the turnover of a store include online purchases? It could be argued that ‘online’ purchases have nothing to do with the bricks-and-mortar store. But what if the customer picks up the goods from the store? Or what if the customer goes into the store, checks out the goods and...
The problems with bank guarantees and cash security
If you think these are perfect forms of security, you are wrong! Here's the conundrum:
Email communication
We live in a vastly different world from that of our forefathers; in no field of human interaction is this more illustrated than that of ‘communication’. How we communicate with...
The implied duty of cooperation: working together to ensure the success of the lease
The concept of cooperation between parties is all about teamwork: working together in unity, collaboration, and ...
Application of lease terms after assignment
We don’t usually think of the legal profession in terms of being ‘poetic’, esoteric or emotional! But...
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