CONTACT
- Level 1, Law Chambers, 573 Hay Street
Perth
WA 6000
Australia
- +61 8 9488 1300
- +61 8 9488 1395
Marks & Sands Lawyers are an inner city Law Firm in Perth, Western Australia.
For the past 25 years Marks & Sands had been an independent Western Australian law firm. In 2001, we joined the national firm Hunt & Hunt Lawyers and became the Western Australian member of the Hunt & Hunt Legal Group.
Hunt & Hunt is a major Australian law firm having offices in Newcastle, Sydney, Brisbane, Melbourne, Adelaide, Canberra, Sydney West, Hobart, Darwin, Perth, Auckland and Shanghai.
Our client base is spread across a diverse range of industry sectors, including insurance, local government, health services, manufacturing, banking and finance, as well as numerous state and federal government departments and instrumentalities.
Marks & Sands Perth Lawyers is a leading mid-sized law firm with 40 staff members, including 6 Partners and 11 legal staff members. We provide a broad range of legal services including Property Law, Employee and Industrial Relations, Insolvency Litigation, Debt Recovery, Commercial Litigation, Insurance and Dispute Resolution, Estate Succession and Planning.
Marks & Sands was the first independent Western Australian law firm to attain Quality Assurance certification to ISO 9001 (achieved March 1996). We have also satisfied the requirements of the Quality Practice Standard of the Law Society of Western Australia.
We are approachable and available. We have excellent working relationships with our clients and have a proven track record of providing efficient, timely and cost effective management advice.
We recognise that the quality of our professional service is dependent on three factors:
Our objectives are therefore to maintain compliance to the International Standard ISO 9001 and the Law Society of Western Australia Quality Practice Standard and effectively apply the management systems and resources within our control to enable us to continue our commitment to provide exceptional quality legal services.
Marks & Sands' dedicated agribusiness team has been involved in the privatisation of some of Western Australia's major primary industry sectors, and has provided advice to leading agribusiness companies on restructuring, trade documentation and agreements.
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The team has assisted large manufacturers, co-operative enterprises, processors, growers, producers, R&D organisations and government bodies with:
Marks & Sands' agribusiness team has also worked with the cotton, horticulture, grain, rice, beef and sugar industries.
We employ the best technology to stay aware of client and market needs, and to communicate effectively and electronically with our clients.
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We aim to develop a close working relationship with our clients to gain a solid understanding of their businesses, and deliver more than just a traditional advisory service.
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Marks & Sands' employment lawyers are skilled in providing advice, interpretation and/or documentation relating to employment, industrial relations and occupational health and safety.
Marks & Sands is able to combine strong corporate and insurance experience with employment and industrial relations expertise, to allow us to effectively advise and assist our clients in a range of workplace related matters including unlawful and unfair dismissals, discrimination and equal opportunity, company restructures and redundancies, employee contracts and entitlements, enterprise bargaining, workers compensation and occupational health and safety.
Our lawyers have experience as advocates in State and Federal jurisdictions although we take a proactive approach to the resolution of disputes prior to litigation. Many of our lawyers are trained mediators.
Marks & Sands also provides training services to clients, having formulated and presented seminars and workshops and drafted training manuals, policies and procedures.
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Our understanding of the public service and the context in which Government Departments and quasi-government organisations operate can be summarised by these key points:
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Our government industry group assists government departments and quasi-government organisations with the following:
Our expertise in this field is extensive, providing specialised legal advice to both the public and private sectors of the health industry. Continuously in contact with key people in the industry, Marks & Sands understands the intricacies of the health sector and is thus able to deliver adept commercial advice grounded in sound industry knowledge.
Marks & Sands has a proven track record in delivering first class legal services to the health industry. We have long standing relationships with health clients, industry associations and government agencies.
The face of healthcare in Australia is rapidly changing. Technological developments, an aging population and an increased emphasis on healthy living provides the main impetus for such change and the surrounding legal framework is elaborate and complex. Marks & Sands meets these challenges with a wealth of experience and innovation.
Harnessing the diversity of skills in our health team, we offer a familiarity with the business and regulatory environment and a comprehensive knowledge, providing an efficient, cost effective and coordinated service to clients. Our business strength lies in practical legal solutions, personalised service and efficient turnaround in plain English documentation.
At Marks & Sands we have a particular interest in remote and rural healthcare. We are experienced in handling the divergent legal issues which arise in servicing the needs of communities outside the metropolitan countries. Our lawyers act for remote and rural health services throughout the country.
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One of our largest and most specialised areas of law is our Family Law Section.
Our Family Law team offer their professional services and expertise not only on Divorce, but also in areas of pre-nuptial agreements child contact issues, property settlement and adoption.
Our specialist team have extensive experience in separate representation for children in family law matters and are available to their clients 24 hours.
Marks & Sands undertake a variety of work relating to Employment Law and Industrial Relations. We have a team of experienced professionals, working in this field, including a partner, a consultant, a solicitor, an articled clerk and a paralegal.
We have a broad range of experience in matters arising under the Industrial Relations Act (WA) and the Workplace Relations Act (Cth) 1996 We have provided advice and representation to a variety of clients in relations to the Occupational Safety and Health Act (WA) 1984 and associated regulations.
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In assisting our clients, we have dealt with the following:
The increasing demands of a sophisticated public and ever more complex and sensitive litigation make the practise of insurance law the domain of true specialists. Marks & Sands knows the insurance industry, the marketplace and the law.
Our understanding of the insurance environment, as well as insureds' business interests, means we can provide effective commercial insurance advice to both insurance companies and to our commercial clients regarding their insurance and risk management programs and concerns. We take a strategic approach to case management and claims resolution and utilise customised technology and insurance practice management systems.
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Our lawyers are well-equipped to advise on all types of insurance claims and coverage disputes, particularly in relation to those involving:
There has in the last two decades, been a dramatic global growth in the development and use of privacy-threatening technologies.
Such technologies include the Internet as a commonly used vehicle for social and commercial transactions, video surveillance technology, biometric measurement, genetic testing, geographic information systems, caller number identification, RFID, EFTPOS, intelligent traffic systems and decentralised computer super-databases.
Databases containing personal information have proliferated in both the private and public sectors, and have become highly commercially valuable. Personal profiling has become a multi-billion dollar industry world-wide.
The response to this, both in Australia and overseas, has been the enactment of a broad range of regulatory regimes, as well as the development of common law jurisprudence. In Australia, there have been legislative responses at the Commonwealth and State levels, with industry specific regimes in the telecommunications and health sectors. Following recent amendments, the Commonwealth Act now applies with some exceptions to information in private sector enterprises. Most jurisdictions have enacted legislation to regulate the use of listening or surveillance devices. Human rights jurisprudence internationally has also contributed to the development of common law privacy protection as reflected in recent High Court judgments.
Marks & Sands has a Privacy Practice Group with extensive expertise in privacy issues across a broad range of industry sectors, including health, telecommunications, government and general corporate/commercial. Marks & Sands has provided advice in relation to the operation of the Privacy Act 1988 (Cth) as well as State privacy legislation and industry specific privacy regimes. The firm has particular expertise in the application of these regulatory requirements as well as the common law, to novel situations arising in the context of the new information economy.
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The increasingly sophisticated demands of commercial property clients and ever more complex legislation make the practice of commercial property law the province of true specialists. Marks & Sands knows the property industry, the marketplace and the law. Our national property practice provides advice on all types of property transactions.
The experience of our property team spans from sales and purchases, leasing and licensing, developments and due diligence through to structuring, syndication, financing and taxation-gained from acting in a variety of commercial, retail and industrial projects.
Our property team draws on its knowledge and experience of working with a wide range of clients including corporate and institutional owners, rural landholders, property developers, mortgage financiers, private client owners, to resort/hotel owners. Matters that we have conducted and managed for these clients range from small, simple transactions to complicated, multi-million dollar projects.
We recognise that property transactions and related issues require a quick and effective response. Careful and efficient negotiation, clear communication and concise documentation are key features in our approach to property law.
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The areas of expertise offered by our property team include: