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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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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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11 February 2020 - Information Commissioner Releases Health Service Providers' Data Breach Action PlanThe Office of the Australian Information Commissioner released a Data Breach Action Plan for health service providers which contains a four step process for managing a data breach involving steps for containing the breach, assessing risks associated with the breach, contacting relevant parties and minimising the likelihood and effects of future data breaches.
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21 January 2020 - Federal Court Finds Trivago Breached Australian Consumer LawThe Federal Court found that Trivago breached the Australian Consumer Law by making misleading representations about hotel room rates which misled consumers into believing that its website would help users to quickly and easily identify the cheapest rates available for a given hotel when in fact Trivago used an algorithm to display hotel room rate rankings which placed significant weight on which online hotel booking sites were willing to pay Trivago the most.
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17 December 2019 - ACMA Issues $12,600 Infringement Notice to ExetelInternet service provider Exetel Pty Ltd has paid $12,600 in respect of an infringement notice issued by the Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) for failing to lodge complaint reports by the due date in accordance with the Telecommunications (Consumer Complaints) Record-Keeping Rules 2018 which require specified telecommunications service providers to report complaint information quarterly to ACMA.
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13 November 2019 - ASIC Releases Whistleblower Policies Regulatory GuideThe Australian Securities and Investments Commission released a Whistleblower Policies Regulatory Guide to assist public companies, large proprietary companies and proprietary companies that are trustees of registrable superannuation entities to meet the legal requirement that they make available to their officers and employees by no later than 1 January 2020 a whistleblower policy which deals with specified matters.
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