Batt Griffith Legal provides a professional service, in the areas of Wills, succession planning, personal asset management and estate administration. We cater to the individual needs of clients; ensuring that their personal, family and business interests are protected while maintaining the client’s wishes. We assist and advise Executors, family members and third parties on probate formalities including documentation and administration. We also advise Executors and potential claimants on their entitlements and options in Contested Estates.

We can advise you on:

• Grants of Probate
• Letters of Administration
• Wills
• International wills
• Estate Administration
• Inheritance Family Provision Claims
• SACAT applications
• Powers of Attorney
• Advance Care Directives
• Testamentary Trusts
• Special Disability Trusts
• Family and Business Succession
• Rural Business Issues
• Rural Business specific Succession Planning

Batt Griffith Legal have the knowledge and experience to advise clients on a range of commercial law matters. We offer extensive advice to businesses including restructuring and structuring new businesses, preparing contracts and advising businesses on existing contracts and documents.

We can advise you on:

• Acquisition and sale of businesses
• Shareholder agreements
• Distribution agreements
• Joint ventures
• Unit Trusts
• Discretionary Trusts
• Business Succession
• Business Structuring
• Contractual Terms
• Mortgages and loans  
• PPSR (personal securities register)
• Injunctive Remedies

Batt Griffith Legal offer a full range of services in the area of property and conveyancing. Our conveyancing department can assist with residential and commercial contracts of sale and purchase, mortgages, loans, caveats, division of property and partition and sale issues.

Batt Griffith Legal offers advice on all aspects of relationship disputes from children’s matters to complex financial property settlements and binding financial agreements.

We pride ourselves on the ability to mediate situations and try to resolve family law disputes quickly to ensure the legal aspects of a family or relationship breakdown remain as straight forward as possible in order to limit emotional and financial strain to our client.

However if litigation is unavoidable we have the skills and experience to take the matter to court and continue to provide personal, empathetic and professional representation. We work to make sure our client is completely satisfied with the final outcome.

Where parties to a current relationship or marriage wish to document their future arrangements in the event of a separation we can provide advice on the parties rights and responsibilities and how any agreement between them can be formalised.

Our approach to dispute resolution encourages early mediation and negotiation in an effort to avoid complex litigation. We work to understand client’s disputes and provide them with options and strategies to tackle their legal matter. Resolving disputes early reduces the expense and significant amount of time involved in court proceedings.

However litigation will be unavoidable in some circumstances and our lawyers have extensive experience in court proceedings, having acted in all South Australian and Federal Jurisdictions.

We can advise you on:

• Mediation
• Negotiation
• Complex litigation
• Debt collection
• Conciliation

Batt Griffith Legal provide advice to businesses and individuals on employment-related law; including structuring and managing the employment relationship from recruitment through to termination and advising both employers and employees on their rights and obligations in the workplace.

Batt Griffith Legal have extensive experience advising on Corporate Governance matters, including: company constitutions, directors’ and officers’ duties and obligations, removal of directors, compliance programs, meeting procedures, Annual General Meeting and Extraordinary General Meeting and shareholders’ rights.

We can advise you on:

• Constitutions
• Company Structures
• Advice on Corporations Act
• Directors Duties and Obligations
• Meetings
• Compliance
• Incorporated associations

Batt Griffith Legal advise clients on a range of Competition and Consumer Law matters to ensure that their businesses practice is compliant with the law. We also deal with the area of misleading, deceptive and unconscionable conduct.

We can advise you on:

• Compliance Audits
• Compliance Programs and Training
• Misleading and Deceptive Conduct
• Terms and Conditions
• Unfair contracts
• Manufacturing liabilities
• Rules of conduct
• Restraint of trade
• Franchise

Batt Griffith Legal provides advice to individuals and businesses on protecting and defending their reputation and litigating where necessary.

We can advise you on:

• Injunctions
• Apologies 
• Claims for damages to reputation
• Defending claims