Recent important amendments have been made to the Competition and Consumer Act 2010 (Cth) to increase the scope for a court to declare that certain terms in contracts are unfair. These expanded new laws will come into effect in November 2023. The changes include new...Read More
Being attacked in the public arena is never a pleasant experience. What can you do if you are attacked by a customer or members of the public who are posting negative and false reviews? What if they are making defamatory remarks online about the business, its owners...Read More
As we’re all now well aware, Christmas is now just four weeks away, which means that in five weeks the return desks of most major shops will be overflowing with customers returning gifts that weren’t welcome that year. We’ve all seen the signs in shops that say “no...Read More
Will you need to pay back the ATO for JobKeeper It is still surprising to consider how rapidly things have changed for employers and employees in 2020. COVID-19 cases were first reported in Australia on 25 January 2020. By 30 March 2020 – just 2 months later –...Read More
02 June 2020 COMMERCIAL TENANCIES This is the third legal update in our series about the National Cabinet’s Mandatory Code of Conduct for commercial tenancies and the State level legislative implementation of that Code in response to the COVID-19 pandemic economic...Read More
28 April 2020 COMMERCIAL TENANCIES On 16 April 2020 we issued a Legal Update regarding the National Cabinet’s Mandatory Code of Conduct for commercial tenancies, released in response to the economic fallout from the COVID-19 pandemic. Click here to access it. Since...Read More
