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New legislation alert: Are you playing fair?
Myer Under Fire: A Lesson in Compliance and Why Cost Should Never Be Your Only Consideration in Choosing a Supplier
Reminder: NSW $2,000 Cashback
Chrisco Hit with $200,000 Penalty Order for Australian Consumer Law Breach
Directors Risk Personal Liability for Staffing Oversight
Indemnity Tips
Reminder: NSW $2,000 Cashback
Owner Left “Devastated” by Business Sale
Accountant Left “Devastated” by Business Sale
Warning about Work Functions- Contract Review and Negotiation Strategies
Fake Testimonials Lead to a $30k Fine
Breach of Warranty Causes $1M Damages Claim
The Qualities that Define an Effective Contract - Issue 2
Vendor Due Diligence
The Qualities that Define an Effective Contract - Issue 1
Getting on the Front Foot in Disputes and Litigation
Warning – Dealing with Clients Who are Investing in Private Companies
Conducting Due Diligence Cost Effectively
What to Watch Out for in Creative Contracts
Negotiating Earn-out Arrangements
Warning - Investing in Private Companies
Telstra, Metadata and Privacy – The decision you need to know about
A 5 Minute Contracting Checklist
Knowing and Retaining the Value in Your Business
Moral Rights: What are they?
What Clauses Do You Spend Your Time On?
Protecting Against Employees Taking Clients – In the Digital Age
The Cost of Developing a Contract Versus the Cost of Litigation
Issues with Service of Notices by Email
Selling and Purchasing Assets vs Shares
Tips and Traps for Businesses in a Sale Environment
Buying Businesses with Minimum Fuss – Having a Commercial Focus
Director Held Personally Liable for Sham Contracting Penalties
$300,000 Penalty for Sham Contracting
Privacy – why it’s important to business
Warning for Accountants Setting Up Company and Business Names
Tips and Traps for Accountants in a Sale Environment
Fixed and Floating Charges Superseded
Balancing the Commercial Versus Risk Focus in Contracting
Trademark Registrations are Vulnerable to Attack
Strategies for Avoiding Problem Debtors
Paying the Price for Poor Documentation
Disorganisation Leads to $47,000 Fine
“Workplace” Clarified by Sexual Harassment Case
Starting Out in Business – Trademarks and Business Names – Help!
Disputed Territory – Protecting Domain Names
Protecting Trademarks in China
PPSR - Amendment Demand Process
Recent ACCC Blitz on Cartel Conduct
Selling Your Business: 5 Tips to Help Maximise Your Sale Price
Superman Wins in Fight with Melbourne Gym
Director’s duties and minimising risks of personal liability: A simple guide for busy directors
Consequential Loss – Reconsidering Your Boilerplates
Unfair Dismissal for Mental Illness
LinkedIn Gaff Costs Employee His Job
ACCC Sues Coles for Unconscionable Conduct with Suppliers
Extended Warranties – Take Care!
Contracting Risks in Major Projects: Dispute Resolution Clauses
3D Printing
Let the Supplier Beware
Trademarks and Domain Names – Stopping Competitors in Their Tracks
ACCC Unconscionable Conduct Appeal
ACCC 2014 Compliance and Enforcement Policy Promises Action on Drip Pricing
Dispute Resolution Clauses Under Fire
Duties and Responsibilities as Important as Job Title
A Costly Failure in Record Keeping
Money Can’t Buy my ‘Like’
ACCC Wins by Forfeit in the First Unfair Contract Terms Case
New Privacy Laws – Should You Care?
Spam Mail Cops Big Fines
BYO Devices - The Risks and Trends
Personal Property Securities Register
Tying Up Legal Loose Ends
Businesses Need to be Prepared for New Laws
What does the customer class action against bank fees have to do with procurement?
ASIC Surveillance Targets Illegal Phoenix Activity
“Attitude” – How a Humble Trademark Became Worth Millions
Can You Stop a Competitor from Using Your Trademark in Their Domain Name or Website?
Are Restraint Clauses Enforceable? (… and what’s the deal with those weird cascading clauses?)
Loose Tweets Sink Fleets
PPSA Casualty – The drastic consequences of failing to register a security interest in personal property
Employment Law - Restraining Ex-Employees From Poaching Clients
Qantas GST Headache - What is a taxable supply?
A further look at the use of “reasonable commercial endeavours”
Reminder that hijacking web traffic could land you in hot water
Crowd funding
Protecting against clients taking your pitch
Tips for project descriptions and proposals
Social media – what you can and can’t do
Drug testing and privacy
Enforcing post-employment conditions on executives
Out-of-hours conduct leads to dismissal
Can an unsigned contract be binding?
Astroturfing – Misleading advertising
Do confidentiality clauses in employment agreements hold any weight?
Facebook woes – the changing face of social media
The first casualties of the PPSA
Who is responsible when a brand you have created lands your client in hot water?
Energy Watch and Ben Polis fined $1.95million
How to use the PPSA to protect money you are owed
When is an independent contractor actually an employee?
Group buying deals so hot they can burn
The top 7 legal considerations when you are preparing for the sale of your business
Warning for directors: new laws are here
Are you a director? These new laws apply to you - READ THIS!
Take care with redundancies
Who owns the copyright in the work we produce for a client?
Dangers in Tenders and EOIs - a follow up
Newsflash on anti-phoenix laws
DJ Bitten by Rare Victory in Moral Rights Case
One Direction – squabble over trademark
New case on dangers in tenders and EOIs
Newsflash – update on phoenix activity reforms
Google under fire
New Consumer Guarantees – make sure your supply contracts are updated
Are you on top of the new Australian Consumer Law?
To the Batmobile! Copyright fight
Consumer Guarantees under the ACL – what do they mean?
The PPSA is now here!
Resale Price Maintenance: Did you know this is illegal?
Harmonisation of Work Health and Safety Laws
Is your independent contracting a SHAM?
Overseas jaunts: Tax Office review of conference expenses
Warning for directors: New tax laws are coming
Misleading 2-price comparisons under attack
Court is not the only way to resolve a dispute
Changes to the business name registration system are coming!
Cloud Computing: Legal issues for service contracts
What is the difference between ™ and ®?
How to Create Branding that can be Protected
Facebook: Are you liable for other people’s postings on your wall? Yes, you are!
Social Networking by your employees: Can you control it?
Could innocent blog comments amount to defamation?
Insurances explained – a brief overview
Are your indemnity clauses a ticking time bomb?
Are you prepared for .xxx ?
Important alert: New legislation for businesses supplying goods on credit
Groupon v Scoopon battle it out
Domain name duels – how can you win?
What’s in a name? Business names, Company names, Domain names, and trademarks – the differences explained
Important alert: New legislation that impacts your business
Strategies for dealing with rollover clauses and evergreen contracts
Google gets “Groggle”
Help! Get us out of this evergreen contract
Reminder: Review your contracts urgently
The Federal Budget: Items of note for Directors
The risks lurking in your "inbox"
A cautionary tale in marketing
Avoiding underperforming contracts
UGG-ly trademark disputes
David Jones: A Wake-up Call
Australia's First International Dispute Resolution Centre Opens
Landmines in Sourcing a Supplier
Cabcharge settles with ACCC for $15M
Beware: It’s time to review your consumer standard form contracts
Trademark protection – why bother?
Reasonable Endeavours. Best Endeavours. What’s the difference??
