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Karin Derkley 10 Sep 2019
Unfair contracts should be made illegal and attract strong penalties, an LIV hosted forum on how regulators can help small businesses has heard...
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Karin Derkley 18 Aug 2019
Commercial lawyers need to remind their clients of their obligation to act conscionably, Justice Chris Maxwell said at the Victoria Law Foundation Oration...
Consumer Law Corporate Social Responsibility
Joe Lederman 01 Nov 2018
Recent developments have shown there is a need for food labelling and consumer protection legislation designed specifically for online food sales...
Margaret Ryan 01 Nov 2018
Two recent decisions have broadened the approach to the test of whether a trade mark is “substantially identical” with another mark...
Consumer Law Intellectual Property Technology
Rebecca Neophitou 02 Jul 2018
ACCC v JJ Richards is the first successful prosecution involving unfair terms in small business contracts. It is likely to have a significant impact on commercial practices...
Rosannah Healy 16 Mar 2018
In November 2016, the unfair contract terms regime which applied to standard form contracts with consumers was extended to standard form contracts with small business...
Charles Noonan 01 Mar 2018
Consumers place trust and confidence in online reviews when making purchasing decisions. Accordingly, the manner in which reviews are collected, moderated and published is an area of heightened focus for the ACCC...
Consumer Law Social Media
Russell Cocks 01 Jun 2017
Section 48A of the Sale of Land Act provides dissatisfied purchasers with an alternative to avoidance for breach of section 32. Given the significance of vendor statements in the...
Daniel Star 01 Apr 2017
Approach to the meaning of statutory unconscionable conduct – whether knowledge of officers and employees can be aggregated and attributed to a corporation to find the corporation...
Consumer Law Courts Judgment
Victorian Law Reform Commission 01 Apr 2017
Litigation funding has come under scrutiny after high profile cases saw successful plaintiffs ending up with nothing. The Victorian Attorney-General Martin Pakula has asked the Victorian Law...
Dan Star SC 01 Mar 2017
In Auguste v Nikolyn Pty Ltd [2016] FCA 1579 (23 December 2016) the Federal Court (McKerracher J) dismissed an appeal from the Federal Circuit Court of Australia (FCCA)...
Dan Star 01 Dec 2016
Ambush marketing for the 2016 Rio Olympics game – whether infringement of the Olympic Insignia Protection Act 1987 – whether misleading and deceptive conduct under the Australian Consumer Law...
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