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15 July 2024

With pals like these…who needs fair contract terms?
PayPal is no friend of small business, according to the Federal Court, having included an unfair term in more than 600,000 small business contracts. A timely prompt to ensure ‘unfair’ terms are banished from standard form contracts...
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10 Apr 2024

Hanging out the dirty laundry
The landscape for lawyers, accountants, and real estate agents is set to evolve with proposed changes to Australia's Anti-Money Laundering and Counter-Terrorism legislation. David Meegan and Irini Kourakis provide a breakdown of the proposed amendments...
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8 Apr 2024

myGov: the shortcut to Commonwealth Statutory Declarations
From 12 February 2024, any person who needs to make a Commonwealth statutory declaration can do so digitally through myGov using their “Digital Identity”, without the requirement for a prescribed person to witness the declaration...
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4 Mar 2024

Streamlining the Financial Services Legislation
On 18 January 2024 the Australian Law Reform Commission (ALRC) released a report on its review of financial services legislation titled “Confronting Complexity: Reforming Corporations and Financial Services Legislation”...
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20 Feb 2024

Obligation to ensure proper supervision of building work
Section 12(b) of the Building Work Contractors Act 1995 (SA) (the Act) provides that a licensed building work contractor must ensure that building work of any kind performed under the contractor’s licence is properly supervised....
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