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The 3 Things You Need To Know About the New Director Identification Number (DIN) -
Provisional Protections for NSW Tenants and New Rent Relief Scheme for VIC SME Tenants
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Jobkeeper Employment Law Alert – Quick tips on legislation that has just been passed
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Amendments to Insolvency Rulings and Directors Personal Liability
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Coronavirus: Working From Home Considerations
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Coronavirus: Workplace Health and Safety Considerations
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Coronavirus Employment Law Update - Leave and Stand Downs
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COVID19 and Hurdles to Stand Downs
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Coronavirus: Implications on commercial contracts and force majeure clauses
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Serious Trademark Issues when Manufacturing in China
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A CASUAL QUANDARY: IMPORTANT UPDATES FOR EMPLOYERS
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New legislation alert: Are you playing fair?
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Myer Under Fire: A Lesson in Compliance and Why Cost Should Never Be Your Only Consideration in Choosing a Supplier
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Reminder: NSW $2,000 Cashback
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Chrisco Hit with $200,000 Penalty Order for Australian Consumer Law Breach
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Directors Risk Personal Liability for Staffing Oversight
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Indemnity Tips
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Reminder: NSW $2,000 Cashback
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Owner Left “Devastated” by Business Sale
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Accountant Left “Devastated” by Business Sale
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Warning about Work Functions
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Fake Testimonials Lead to a $30k Fine
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Breach of Warranty Causes $1M Damages Claim
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The Qualities that Define an Effective Contract - Issue 2
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Vendor Due Diligence
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The Qualities that Define an Effective Contract - Issue 1
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Getting on the Front Foot in Disputes and Litigation
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Warning – Dealing with Clients Who are Investing in Private Companies
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Conducting Due Diligence Cost Effectively
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What to Watch Out for in Creative Contracts
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Negotiating Earn-out Arrangements
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Warning - Investing in Private Companies
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Telstra, Metadata and Privacy – The decision you need to know about
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A 5 Minute Contracting Checklist
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Knowing and Retaining the Value in Your Business
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Moral Rights: What are they?
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What Clauses Do You Spend Your Time On?
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Protecting Against Employees Taking Clients – In the Digital Age
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The Cost of Developing a Contract Versus the Cost of Litigation
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Issues with Service of Notices by Email
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Selling and Purchasing Assets vs Shares
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Tips and Traps for Businesses in a Sale Environment
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Buying Businesses with Minimum Fuss – Having a Commercial Focus
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Director Held Personally Liable for Sham Contracting Penalties
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$300,000 Penalty for Sham Contracting
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Privacy – why it’s important to business
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Warning for Accountants Setting Up Company and Business Names
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Tips and Traps for Accountants in a Sale Environment
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Fixed and Floating Charges Superseded
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Balancing the Commercial Versus Risk Focus in Contracting
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Trademark Registrations are Vulnerable to Attack
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Strategies for Avoiding Problem Debtors
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Paying the Price for Poor Documentation
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Disorganisation Leads to $47,000 Fine
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“Workplace” Clarified by Sexual Harassment Case
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Starting Out in Business – Trademarks and Business Names – Help!
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Disputed Territory – Protecting Domain Names
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Protecting Trademarks in China
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PPSR - Amendment Demand Process
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Recent ACCC Blitz on Cartel Conduct
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Selling Your Business: 5 Tips to Help Maximise Your Sale Price
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Superman Wins in Fight with Melbourne Gym
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Director’s duties and minimising risks of personal liability: A simple guide for busy directors
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Consequential Loss – Reconsidering Your Boilerplates
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Unfair Dismissal for Mental Illness
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LinkedIn Gaff Costs Employee His Job
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ACCC Sues Coles for Unconscionable Conduct with Suppliers
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Extended Warranties – Take Care!
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Contracting Risks in Major Projects: Dispute Resolution Clauses
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3D Printing
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Let the Supplier Beware
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Trademarks and Domain Names – Stopping Competitors in Their Tracks
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ACCC Unconscionable Conduct Appeal
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ACCC 2014 Compliance and Enforcement Policy Promises Action on Drip Pricing
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Dispute Resolution Clauses Under Fire
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Duties and Responsibilities as Important as Job Title
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A Costly Failure in Record Keeping
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Money Can’t Buy my ‘Like’
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ACCC Wins by Forfeit in the First Unfair Contract Terms Case
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New Privacy Laws – Should You Care?
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Spam Mail Cops Big Fines
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BYO Devices - The Risks and Trends
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Personal Property Securities Register
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Tying Up Legal Loose Ends
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Businesses Need to be Prepared for New Laws
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What does the customer class action against bank fees have to do with procurement?
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ASIC Surveillance Targets Illegal Phoenix Activity
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“Attitude” – How a Humble Trademark Became Worth Millions
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Can You Stop a Competitor from Using Your Trademark in Their Domain Name or Website?
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Are Restraint Clauses Enforceable? (… and what’s the deal with those weird cascading clauses?)
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Loose Tweets Sink Fleets
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PPSA Casualty – The drastic consequences of failing to register a security interest in personal property
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Employment Law - Restraining Ex-Employees From Poaching Clients
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Qantas GST Headache - What is a taxable supply?
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A further look at the use of “reasonable commercial endeavours”
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Reminder that hijacking web traffic could land you in hot water
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Crowd funding
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Protecting against clients taking your pitch
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Tips for project descriptions and proposals
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Social media – what you can and can’t do
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Drug testing and privacy
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Enforcing post-employment conditions on executives
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Out-of-hours conduct leads to dismissal
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Can an unsigned contract be binding?
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Astroturfing – Misleading advertising
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Do confidentiality clauses in employment agreements hold any weight?
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Facebook woes – the changing face of social media
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The first casualties of the PPSA
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Who is responsible when a brand you have created lands your client in hot water?
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Energy Watch and Ben Polis fined $1.95million
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How to use the PPSA to protect money you are owed
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When is an independent contractor actually an employee?
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Group buying deals so hot they can burn
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The top 7 legal considerations when you are preparing for the sale of your business
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Warning for directors: new laws are here
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Are you a director? These new laws apply to you - READ THIS!
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Take care with redundancies
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Who owns the copyright in the work we produce for a client?
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Dangers in Tenders and EOIs - a follow up
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Newsflash on anti-phoenix laws
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DJ Bitten by Rare Victory in Moral Rights Case
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One Direction – squabble over trademark
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New case on dangers in tenders and EOIs
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Newsflash – update on phoenix activity reforms
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Google under fire
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New Consumer Guarantees – make sure your supply contracts are updated
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Are you on top of the new Australian Consumer Law?
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To the Batmobile! Copyright fight
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Consumer Guarantees under the ACL – what do they mean?
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The PPSA is now here!
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Resale Price Maintenance: Did you know this is illegal?
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Harmonisation of Work Health and Safety Laws
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Is your independent contracting a SHAM?
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Overseas jaunts: Tax Office review of conference expenses
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Warning for directors: New tax laws are coming
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Misleading 2-price comparisons under attack
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Court is not the only way to resolve a dispute
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Changes to the business name registration system are coming!
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Cloud Computing: Legal issues for service contracts
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What is the difference between ™ and ®?
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How to Create Branding that can be Protected
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Facebook: Are you liable for other people’s postings on your wall? Yes, you are!
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Social Networking by your employees: Can you control it?
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Could innocent blog comments amount to defamation?
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Insurances explained – a brief overview
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Are your indemnity clauses a ticking time bomb?
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Are you prepared for .xxx ?
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Important alert: New legislation for businesses supplying goods on credit
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Groupon v Scoopon battle it out
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Domain name duels – how can you win?
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What’s in a name? Business names, Company names, Domain names, and trademarks – the differences explained
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Important alert: New legislation that impacts your business
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Strategies for dealing with rollover clauses and evergreen contracts
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Google gets “Groggle”
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Help! Get us out of this evergreen contract
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Reminder: Review your contracts urgently
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The Federal Budget: Items of note for Directors
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The risks lurking in your "inbox"
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A cautionary tale in marketing
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Avoiding underperforming contracts
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UGG-ly trademark disputes
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David Jones: A Wake-up Call
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Australia's First International Dispute Resolution Centre Opens
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Landmines in Sourcing a Supplier
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Cabcharge settles with ACCC for $15M
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Beware: It’s time to review your consumer standard form contracts
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Trademark protection – why bother?
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Reasonable Endeavours. Best Endeavours. What’s the difference??
