Long awaited reforms to Australia’s unfair contract terms laws come into effect in November making it an offence to enter into a standard form consumer or small business contract that contains an ‘unfair term’.
Visual contracts, where contractual terms are conveyed partially or wholly by images, are starting to emerge in Australia. What are their benefits and risks?
A new bill which significantly increases corporate penalties for breaches in privacy data will drastically alter how company management view and respond to cybersecurity risks passed both houses of Parliament on 28 November 2022 and is now awaiting Royal Assent.
Commercial documents frequently contain restraints of trade designed to protect a party’s commercial interests. In this article, Richard Suters, Principal of the Corporate and Commercial team discusses the validity of restraint of trade provisions and how to avoid your restraint being successfully challenged.
The Federal Government has released a draft bill which proposes to strengthen the unfair contract terms regime by expanding the scope of its application and introducing significant penalties for contravention. In this article, Richard Suters, Principal of the Corporate & Commercial team, discusses the proposed changes and what it will means for businesses if they are implemented.