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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
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- 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
- 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- Fixed and Floating Charges Superseded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??
