BDF LAW

We provide a wide variety of employment and industrial law services for both employees and employers.

• Preparing contracts of employment that are consistent with business objectives
• Reviewing policies
• Restraints of trade and protecting confidential information and intellectual property
• Advice and representation regarding termination of employment claims including unfair dismissal and redundancy
• Employment consequences of restructuring and transfers of business
• Industrial Relations
• Dealing with industrial disputes
• Advising on employee entitlements and employer obligations and defending workplace prosecutions
• Arrangements with independent contractors to meet business requirements and assessing the effect of the Independent Contractors Act 2006
• Advocacy
• Representation as counsel before the Federal Court, Federal Magistrates Court, Supreme Court, Magistrates Court, Fair Work Australia, Tasmanian Industrial Commission, Anti Discrimination Tribunal and Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission.

Preparing your will and making provisions for the future is one of the most important things you can do. At BDF Law we understand the importance of estate planning to ensure your wishes are fulfilled later in life, and we know how to help our clients make the essential preparations for their future.

Our experienced team can offer the following services:

• The preparation of wills
• Obtaining a grant of probate and letter of administration
• the administration of estates
• Testator’s Family Maintenance Act Applications
• Disputing the Validity of Wills through Undue Influence or Coercion
• Power of Attorneys
• Guardianship / Administration Applications

BDF Law offers a personal approach, with practical solution-focused outcomes to meet our client’s needs.

Types of Litigation serviced by BDF Law include:

• Building Disputes
• Debt enforcement and Collection
• Commercial and Financial Disputes
• Contractual Disputes
• Local Government Reviews and Administrative Appeals
• Consumer Law and Protections

Services Provided:

• Drafting court pleadings
• Court appearances at both Magistrate’s Court and Supreme Court including equity, lower court appeals and administrative appeals
• Mediations both Supreme Court and Magistrate’s Court, Federal Court and informal.
• Drafting deeds of settlement, contracts, leases, regulatory and statutory notices, forms & demands