Australian Chinese Lawyers

Understand your case and book a 30-minute time slot for an initial consultation with one of our team members. All clients should receive high-quality service that is effective, practical, and personal. We have 16 years of experience in handling contractual disputes, misleading and deceptive conduct, debt recovery, 刑事律师 bankruptcy, liquidation to other conflicts that involve monetary claims. Hunt & Hunt regularly assists on resolving commercial disputes in China involving litigation and arbitration. We have appeared as Counsel on a number of occasions in CIETAC Arbitrations in Beijing particularly in relation to trade disputes.
He has held senior news production roles at Australia’s Seven Television Network and as a senior correspondent with SBS World News Australia. Additionally, he has contributed to all of Australia’s major print and online media titles. He has worked extensively as a photojournalist and has held major exhibitions of his works. Eliza speaks fluent Indonesian, Chinese Mandarin, Hokkien, and English and has worked in law firms in both Singapore and Melbourne. During the annual practising certificate renewal process we asked lawyers to tell us about their ancestry, country of birth and the languages they speak.

Law firms actively recruiting and promoting in a way that demonstrates their stated commitment to diversity. You realise, quickly, that you must, first and foremost be good in what you do to have your place and say at the table. Then you need to be able to run and jostle as effectively with the rest of the leadership hierarchy and not be stampeded. These gladiatorial realities in the senior leadership arenas may or may not involve your cultural or racial background. In my experience, the skills and qualities required to gain access through the doors of opportunities may not necessarily be the same or identical to those required to remain and stay in the room after you have entered. Once you have entered the door, you are a leader and your race or cultural background is but one of the many challenges that you need to confront, deal with and manage.
Reported failures to enforce COVID-19 social distancing rules in immigration detention centres is a breach of Commonwealth workplace health and safety laws, according to the Australian Lawyers Alliance . Despite the common belief that the Australian health system treats everyone equally, George Newhouseand Karina Hawtrey argue that the system operates in a way that disproportionately excludes and harms First Nations people. They discuss the ways in which legal advocates can recognise and assist in fighting racism, including by implementing firm-wide anti-racism policies and taking on cases of medical negligence faced by First Nations clients. The indefinite detention of people with cognitive impairments and/or mental illness in our criminal justice system has been criticised for being arbitrary in nature and subjecting detainees to abuse and serious human rights violations. ACT residents who believe their human rights have been breached need a simple and affordable way to make a complaint and access legal remedies, says the Australian Lawyers Alliance in a submission to the ACT Government. ‘TheGarlettHigh Court case shows the urgent need for a federal Human Rights Act and even constitutional protection of human rights by way of a Charter or Bill of Rights.

For contracts of any significant size or complexity you should obtain specific legal advice on the terms, nature and content of the contract. The legal advice should take into account and be consistent with the legal structures of China, be structured for a fair result that protects your interests and avoid any issues regarding language . Federal government proposals to combine Australian security agencies into a single ‘national security super-agency’ must also include strengthened human rights protections for all people in Australia, the Australian Lawyers Alliance said today. We have developed a network of advisors in China that covers every major city, from the power of Beijing and Shanghai to the mystique of Lhasa. We have access to more than 4000 law firm partners and more than 20,000 lawyers.
This ensures we have the experience, international networks, and technical expertise to assist in all aspects of IP protection throughout the Asia-Pacific region and further afield. When clients are seeking IP protection across the Asia-Pacific, we team up with IP specialists from Asia and Australia offices to ensure our clients’ needs are carefully managed in all areas. For the purposes of the Australian and New Zealand Code of Conduct for Trans-Tasman Patent and Trade Marks Attorneys 2018, Spruson & Ferguson Pty Ltd is an incorporated registered patent and trade mark attorney, and a member of an ‘ownership group’ within the meaning of the Code.
The Queensland Bill of Rights legislation will make a substantial difference to the lives of some of the most vulnerable people in our society, says the Australian Lawyers Alliance , but there are opportunities to make the Bill stronger and more effective. The Australian Lawyers Alliance welcomed the Legal Affairs and Community Safety Committee’s recommendation to pass the Queensland Bill of Rights saying that the legislation is expected to improve the lives of some of the most vulnerable people in society. A Canadian court ruling this week which will allow compensation to be paid to prisoners who were placed in solitary confinement for long periods of time could have ramifications for the Australian prison system, according to the Australian Lawyers Alliance . A moratorium on the prosecution of low-level street and drug offences should be implemented immediately so that police can focus on assisting the community to keep well and safe, says the Australian Lawyers Alliance . The COVID-19 tracing app needs a strong legal framework to safeguard our rights and privacy, says the Australian Lawyers Alliance .

Even then, there will be aspects of the law that are unknown to a judge in the country's highest court. Federal and State laws have been enacted to protect people from discrimination on the grounds of race, sex, childhood, age and other irrelevant considerations. The civil rights of communists, who were most unpopular in Australia at that time, the High Court of Australia struck down the law as incompatible with the Constitution. The slow pace of law reform and the difficulty of securing the attention of various parliaments, Federal, State and Territory, to the removal of injustices that exist in the law and that affect the lives of ordinary people. I would not, by these words, want it to be thought that the Australian legal system is without flaws. Whilst the legal systems of such nations sometimes seem unclear to outsiders, in practice the system works reasonably well.
It is Asia’s preeminent city state, with an economy experiencing strong growth since its emergence from the GFC, benefiting from its high level of trade with mainland China and the premier place of its stock market for internationalising Chinese firms. It is a hub of international trade and finance, dominated by the service sector, and enjoys a position as a global convention, exhibition and tourism capital. The economy is one of the freest and fasted growing in the world and enjoys an excellent trade relationship with Australia, and there are many well established and active Australian businesses in the country.

It is very easy to be labelled a 'Crazy Rich Asian' for being a Chinese Asian Australian member of the New South Wales Bar. I do not consider that contemporary obsessions with Australia’s trade relations with China assist this phenomenon. Nor do community tensions on issues of race in the wake of the virus that has disrupted the way of life as we knew it.
The integration is presently most evident in the Asian profit-sharing joint ventures operating from 1 May 2012. The first joint venture targets energy, resources and infrastructure work in Asia generally; the second is focussed geographically upon Indonesia where Allens has a long relationship with a local firm Widyawan & Partners. The Indonesian joint venture is not limited to energy, resources and infrastructure and is likely to target also the banking and finance work accompanying the strong capital flows into that country. The Indonesian joint venture will need be conducted through Allens’ cooperation agreement with Widyawan rather than directly. However, by increasing the number of lawyers employed by Widyawan, Allens and Linklaters will be allowed, under the local formula governing foreign lawyer numbers, to put more of their own staff into the local office.
Changes to the Migration Act introduced into Parliament yesterday by Immigration Minister Scott Morrison are at odds with decisions made in the High Court since 1989 and international case law, the Australian Lawyers Alliance said today. The 157 asylum seekers being held on an Australian customs vessel on the high seas are being held in ‘torturous’ conditions which breach international conventions on civil and political rights, the Australian Lawyers Alliance said today. The 64th International Human Rights Day provides us with an opportunity to assess where we are at and the  direction in which we intend to progress. Clear evidence that children being held in immigration detention centres are developing serious mental issues shows the urgency of releasing them into the community as soon as possible, the Australian Lawyers Alliance said today.