NSW Rental Law Reforms 2025: Essential Guide for Tenants and Landlords
NSW's 2025 rental reforms are a game-changer—ending no-grounds evictions, strengthening tenant rights, and introducing new responsibilities for landlords across the state.
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We understand that disputes with a neighbour can be unexpected, disruptive, and can arise over the smallest of issues. Usually, both parties begin with the best of intentions but the situation can often turn bad, fast. Whether a dispute is about trees, dividing fences, noise, animals, smells or otherwise, we know just how important it is to settle neighbourhood disputes quickly and with minimal disruption.
Knowing what to do when legal problems arise with a neighbour is crucial. Generally, there are three stages to resolving neighbourhood disputes, being informal means (i.e. having a conversation with your neighbour about the problem), followed by mediation, and if worst does come to worst, resorting to more formal dispute resolution such as court proceedings.
If you have a dispute with your neighbour, our expert civil lawyers are experienced in providing mediation services, alternative dispute resolution and ongoing legal advice and legal services in a range of neighbour disputes. Contact us today for a free, honest consultation about how we can get the best outcome in your matter today.
Often, neighbourhood disputes over noise, animals, property damage, fences and trees can be managed by politely approaching your neighbour about the problem. If you are able to agree on a solution, it is worth putting that agreement in writing. If you are unable to reach an agreement, there are options available to you under the relevant statute, as well as mediation and alternative dispute resolution. It is generally also worth contacting the Local Council. Failing this, the Local Court or Civil and Administrative Tribunal are also equipped to resolve neighbourhood disputes.
If any of these problems are familiar to you, you may be wondering what to do and who to speak to about resolving the matter. In New South Wales, generally neighbour disputes will be resolved through mediation or alternative dispute resolution such as through the NSW Civil and Administrative Tribunal (NCAT) or a Magistrates Court, having regard to local council by-laws and relevant statute such as the Companion Animals Act or Fences Act.
At Jameson Law, our expert team can provide you with sound legal advice and expert assistance in mediation and alternative dispute resolution, including managing your legal action. It is also worth contacting your local council, legal aid or community legal centre for further information on the by-laws relevant to you.
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As opposed to criminal proceedings, there are a few advantages to civil claims. First, the standard of proof required to prove that sexual abuse occurred is lower. All that is required is that you show it is more likely than not that the sexual abuse took place. Secondly, civil litigation allows survivors of sexual abuse to seek compensation in the form of damages. These damages are not limited in the way victims support services or national redress schemes are. Thirdly, civil claims can be made against an employer or institution if it can be proven that the organisation was negligent in allowing the sexual abuse to take place. This often increases the compensation available to sex abuse victims.
No. A civil claim is entirely separate to criminal proceedings, and you may prove a civil claim even in the absence of any charges being laid upon the perpetrator of sexual abuse. Such charges or convictions do however assist in establishing a civil claim.
For advice on whether a civil claim might be right for you and for more information on our legal services, please contact our experienced personal injury legal team for a free consultation. We can guide you through how the legal processes might apply to your matter, and whether you may be entitled to make a compensation claim for any physical abuse (including sexual abuse) that you may have suffered.
If a civil claim is successful in establishing liability, a victim of sexual assault is entitled to make a compensation claim for damages for a range of loss and/or damage, provided that loss or damage is also proven. These include pain and suffering, loss of earnings, mental harm, any medical or treatment costs, among others. For a confidential discussion of what compensation you may be entitled to, contact our experienced personal injury lawyers today.
Unfortunately, claimants in respect of historical child sexual abuse under the National Redress Scheme cannot also pursue a civil claim for damages.
This will depend on the time limits applicable in your jurisdiction, the nature of the claim, and the legal processes available to you. If your matter relates to child sex abuse (generally, including physical abuse), no time limits apply to the bringing of a civil compensation claim.
For personal injury claims for sexual assault, limitation periods will generally be three years from the date of the offence. This can however be complicated by a number of factors such as whether the abuse is isolated or ongoing and where the abuse took place, and we recommend seeking legal advice on whether you remain entitled to make a compensation claim.
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Civil law helps settle disputes that come up in day to day life such as debts, unpaid fines, discrimination, tenancy issues, tenancy disputes, neighbour disputes, defamation, Centrelink disputes and more.
Civil law covers what rights and responsibilities that individuals, government departments and organisations have in their interactions with each other. Civil breaches are generally reprimanded in fines and/or settlement amounts. On some occassions, where a civil court finds fraud or criminal elements, prosecutors may get involved and press charges.
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