New laws come into effect in just a few months, that extend consumer unfair contract protections to small businesses and that will force all businesses to consider the enforceability of Read More
Archives for Contracts
Myer Under Fire: A Lesson in Compliance and Why Cost Should Never Be Your Only Consideration in Choosing a Supplier
Myer’s Corporate Practice The Fair Work Ombudsman (FWO) has criticised department store Myer’s corporate practice. This is in relation to a cleaning contractor that it alleges underpaid workers. The rebuke Read More
Indemnity Tips
Owner Left “Devastated” by Business Sale
A recent case in the South Australian Supreme Court provides a timely reminder to all businesses about the traps that lurk in business sale contracts and provides a useful overview Read More
The Qualities that Define an Effective Contract – Issue 2
Do you wonder if your contracts are as effective as they can be? In the first of our two part series, we outlined two important qualities of an effective contract, Read More
The Qualities that Define an Effective Contract – Issue 1
We are often so caught up in the process of an ongoing creation of contracts that we forget to sit back and analyse whether the contracts we are creating are Read More
What to Watch Out for in Creative Contracts
We often come across clients who need to engage the services of a creative agency to create something for them. Often timing is an issue, so unfortunately it’s not uncommon Read More
A 5 Minute Contracting Checklist
A deadline for a project is looming, you have only just been involved in the contracting process, the proposed contract just landed in your inbox for the first time, and Read More
What Clauses Do You Spend Your Time On?
I was recently speaking at the IACCM Australasia Forum in Melbourne, where the latest top terms in negotiation were announced. The figures showed (similar to previous years of the same Read More
The Cost of Developing a Contract Versus the Cost of Litigation
Recently I was asked to speak to a group about the cost of developing a contract versus the cost of litigation. The underlying driver of the question is that often Read More
