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Fixed Quotes
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We provide clients with fixed quotes for providing high quality legal services within their budget.
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Highly Responsive
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We are highly responsive lawyers who provide legal services to meet clients' requirements.
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Expert Legal Advice
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We provide clients with clear, practical, expert legal advice to achieve their goals.
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Highest Service Levels
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We meet the highest service levels in providing legal services to clients.
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Minimise Costs
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We seek to minimise clients' legal, regulatory and commercial risks and costs.
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13 August 2020 - Proposed Access Copyright ReformsThe Government is proposing reforms to simplify and update Australia's copyright laws which include creating a limited liability scheme for the use of orphan works, creating a new fair dealing exception for non-commercial quotation, amending the archives and libraries exceptions to be technologically neutral, removing limitations and uncertainties around the use of copyright material in onsite and offsite classroom teaching and streamlining the government statutory licensing scheme.
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13 July 2020 - ACCC Reauthorises APRA Musical Works Licensing ArrangementsThe Australian Competition and Consumer Commission has reauthorised the musical works licensing arrangements of the Australasian Performing Right Association (APRA) for a further four years on several conditions including that APRA publishes its methodologies for calculating the rates for each category of licence offered and more detailed information about the distribution of royalties to its members.
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26 June 2020 - ACMA Releases Digital Platforms Misinformation and News Quality Position PaperThe Australian Communications and Media Authority released a Position Paper which sets out its expectations for the development of a voluntary code of practice on misinformation and news quality that will likely apply to a wide range of digital platforms including Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, Google Search and Google News, Instagram, TikTok, LinkedIn, Apple News and Snapchat.
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8 May 2020 - ACCC and Information Commissioner Release Consumer Data Right Compliance and Enforcement PolicyThe Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) and the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner (OAIC) jointly released the Compliance and Enforcement Policy for the Consumer Data Right (CDR) which is intended to assist consumers and CDR participants to understand the approach of the ACCC and OAIC to encouraging compliance with, and preventing breaches of, the CDR regulatory framework which has been developed to give consumers greater access to and control over their financial and other data.
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2 April 2020 - ACCC Issues Small Business COVID-19 Australian Consumer Law GuidanceThe Australian Competition and Consumer Commission issued COVID-19 guidance to small business for the purpose of them complying with their obligations under the Australian Consumer Law when dealing with issues arising from cancelled events and functions, pricing of goods and services and charging subscription and membership fees when their business is not operating.
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18 March 2020 - Information Commissioner Publishes COVID-19 Privacy AdviceThe Office of the Australian Information Commissioner published COVID-19 privacy guidance for organisations covered by the Privacy Act 1988 (Cth) advising that personal information should only be used or disclosed on a "need-to-know" basis to prevent or manage COVID-19, only the minimum personal information necessary to prevent or manage COVID-19 should be collected or used or disclosed, staff should be notified how their personal information will be handled in dealing with any case of COVID-19 in their workplace and reasonable steps should be taken to keep personal information secure including where staff are working remotely.
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