The Privacy and Other Legislation Amendment Bill 2024 (“the Bill”) was finally introduced after a four-year review of the Privacy Act 1988 (Cth). While not all the “agreed” or “agreed in principle” amendment proposals are adopted and included in the Bill, this Bill is just the first tranche of the reforms - more is yet [...]
The ‘Safe Harbour’ regime under the Corporations Act 2001 (Cth) (the “Act”) provides businesses facing insolvency an opportunity to access legal safe harbour from civil penalties and adverse orders, in circumstances where those businesses would have otherwise been trading whilst insolvent under section 588G of the Act. Insolvency The Act imposes a fundamental duty on [...]
Once a loan or obligations which involves a PPSR registration is repaid or the agreement has come to an end, the business or individual who has registered the PPSR registration has a statutory obligation to remove this registration (in addition to the contractual obligation). In most cases the secured party may have just forgotten, but [...]
Like ill-fitting budgie-smugglers T&Cs are often crafted with a particular business in mind and the unique challenges it faces. At best, using someone else’s means the terms are likely not effective protection for your particular business and, at worst, they won’t fit and may inadequately cover critical things that are unique to your business. Well, [...]
