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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 strive to minimise clients' legal, regulatory and commercial risks and costs.
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5 May 2022 - Australian Financial Services Licensee RI Advice Cybersecurity Risk Management FailureThe Federal Court found that Australian Financial Services licensee RI Advice breached its obligations under the Corporations Act 2001 (Cth) by failing to have in place adequate documentation and controls to manage risk in respect of cybersecurity and cyber resilience across its authorised representative network which stored confidential and sensitive personal information and documents in relation to retail clients.
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22 April 2022 - Trivago ordered to pay $44.7 million penalty for making misleading representationsThe Federal Court ordered Trivago to pay a penalty of $44.7 million for making misleading representations about hotel room rates which misled consumers into believing that they could use its website to quickly and easily identify the cheapest rates available for a hotel room when Trivago used an algorithm to display hotel room rate rankings that placed significant weight on which online hotel booking sites were willing to pay Trivago the most.
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25 March 2022 - Peters Ice Cream ordered to pay $12 million penalty for engaging in anti-competitive exclusive dealingThe Federal Court ordered Peters Ice Cream to pay a penalty of $12 million for engaging in anti-competitive exclusive dealing involving acquiring distribution services from PFD Food Services on the condition that they would not sell or distribute competitor's single serve ice cream products in specified geographic areas without the prior written consent of Peters Ice Creams.
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28 February 2022 - ACCC Releases Digital Platform Services Inquiry Discussion PaperThe Australian Competition and Consumer Commission released a Discussion Paper that seeks views on whether a new regulatory framework is required to complement the Competition and Consumer Act 2010 (Cth) and Australian Consumer Law to address competition and consumer issues that arise in relation to large digital platforms such as Apple, Meta (formerly known as Facebook Inc.), Google, Microsoft, and Amazon.
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23 January 2022 - New Online Safety Act 2021The new Online Safety Act 2021 (Cth) commenced providing the eSafety Commissioner with functions to improve and promote online safety for Australians including responsibility for administering a complaints system for cyber-bullying material targeted at an Australian child or adult, a complaints and objection system for non-consensual sharing of intimate images online and an online content scheme for dealing with material that depicts abhorrent violent conduct.
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1 December 2021 - Social Media (Anti-Trolling) Bill 2021 ReleasedThe Federal Attorney-General's Department released an exposure draft of the Social Media (Anti-Trolling) Bill 2021 which will allow Australians to respond to defamatory third-party content posted on social media platforms by deeming the social media provider to be the publisher of the third-party content for the purposes of defamation law and empowering courts to issue orders which require social media providers to give an applicant the third-party's contact details and country location data.
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