Unfair Contract Terms Updateby Coutts Lawyers & Conveyancers18 March 201919 March 2023Overview The introduction of unfair contract laws has visited a major change in the law relating to standard form commercial agreements. When first introduced in… Read More »Unfair Contract Terms Update
Australia’s first unfair contracts regime caseby Coutts Lawyers & Conveyancers27 October 201722 February 2024Australian Competition and Consumer Commission v JJ Richards & Sons Pty Ltd [2017] FCA 1224 On 13 October 2017, the Federal Court of Australia made its… Read More »Australia’s first unfair contracts regime case
Unfair contract terms and small businesses: Examples and practical considerationsby Coutts Lawyers & Conveyancers21 August 201723 February 2023What are some examples of unfair contract terms? There are a number of examples regarding the types of clauses which could be found to be… Read More »Unfair contract terms and small businesses: Examples and practical considerations
Spotlight on unfair contracts and small businessesby Coutts Lawyers & Conveyancers18 August 201711 February 2025The unfair contracts regime under the Australian Consumer Law was extended to apply to small businesses on and from 12 November 2016 and is already… Read More »Spotlight on unfair contracts and small businesses
Small business protection from unfair contractsby Coutts Lawyers & Conveyancers10 February 20164 January 2023The Australian Consumer Laws are designed to protect an individual against unfair practices. Under the proposed Unfair Contracts, some of these protections will be extended… Read More »Small business protection from unfair contracts