Corporate and Commercial

Posted on February 11, 2025

On 4 February 2025, the ACCC released a media statement following a sweep of over 200 online retailers and businesses. The message is…

Posted on February 11, 2025

The Privacy and Other Legislation Amendment Act 2024 (Cth) (Amendment Act) passed on 28 November 2024, introduces several significant…

Posted on February 10, 2025

Increasingly, trade mark owners are becoming the target of email scams. These fraudulent emails often claim that your registered trade…

Posted on April 28, 2022

Business persons, company directors and professionals such as doctors, lawyers, accountants, engineers and architects are always at risk of…

Posted on December 16, 2021

Company directors in Australia will soon need to have been issued with a unique digital identifier, a Director Identification Number…

Posted on July 07, 2021

If you plan on licensing your trade marks, brands, or other IP, it’s super important to consider whether the licence agreement is in…

Posted on July 02, 2021

If you are a franchisor or franchisee (or are thinking of becoming one), you need to know that the franchising code has recently been…

Posted on October 16, 2020

Two unconnected cases show that big businesses who try to take advantage of consumers can get punished if their conduct is misleading or…

Posted on March 19, 2020

In March 2020, the High Court unanimously overturned a decision of the Court of Appeal of the Supreme Court of Queensland (Court of Appeal)…

Posted on November 20, 2019

In this age of electronic communications and documents, we are often asked to advise on how a legal document can be signed validly. There…