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Ramping up subcontractor protection – Retention and now ‘Deemed’ Statutory Trusts

Authors: Robert Riddell, Partner and Brianna Smith, Lawyer Poor payment practices in the construction industry have faced increasing scrutiny by legislators, culminating in a series of amendments (and proposed amen ...

Australian Competition & Consumer Commission Priority – Small Business Unfair Contract Terms Legislation – Deeply flawed?

Authors: Ian Nathaniel, Partner and Conrad Banasik, Associate The small business unfair contract term legisation has been in force for almost 2 years, and the ACCC has been making enforcement of this legislation a prior ...

‘Heinz Sight’ is a Wonderful Thing: Food Giant Ordered to Pay $2.25 Million in Penalties

Author: Tom Griffith, Partner Following a finding on 19 March 2018 that Heinz had engaged in misleading and deceptive conduct, the Federal Court of Australia last week hit the food giant with a $2.25 million penalt ...

Stay in your speed lane - a further warning to retail carriage service providers about NBN speed claims and associated upcoming standards

Authors: Tim Clark, Partner & Andrew Barling, Senior Associate Following continuing complaints by consumers in relation to differences between the advertised NBN service speeds and those actually experienced by consumer ...

New South Wales Returns Fire in the Security of Payment Wars

Author: Robert Riddell Over 1½ years since John Murray was appointed by the Commonwealth Department of Employment to undertake a review of the security of payment laws across Australia, the New South Wales Governm ...

Update on Australia’s Notifiable Data Breaches scheme

Authors: Tim Clark and Andrew Barling In our earlier article ‘Data Breach Response Planning: Getting Down to Business’ we referred to the introduction of a mandatory new Notifiable Data Breaches (NDB) sche ...

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