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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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23 February 2021 - Information Commissioner Publishes Coronavirus (COVID-19) Vaccination Privacy GuidanceThe Office of the Australian Information Commissioner published coronavirus (COVID-19) vaccination guidance for organisations covered by the Privacy Act 1988 (Cth) advising that employers will only be able to collect employees' vaccination status information in very limited circumstances where the employee consents and the collection is reasonably necessary unless an exception applies, only the minimum information necessary to maintain a safe workplace should be collected, employees must be advised how their information will be handled, the information should only be used and disclosed on a "need-to-know" basis, and reasonable steps should be taken to keep the information secure.
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20 January 2021 - ACMA Finds Kogan Breaches Spam ActThe Australian Communications and Media Authority issued Kogan Australia Pty Ltd with an infringement notice for $310,800 and accepted a three year court-enforceable undertaking from it for breaches of the Spam Act 2003 (Cth) involving sending 42 million marketing emails to consumers without a functional unsubscribe facility which required that they take additional steps of setting a password and logging into a Kogan account to unsubscribe.
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2 December 2020 - ACMA Registers Reducing Scam Calls CodeThe Australian Communications and Media Authority has registered the Reducing Scam Calls Code which requires telecommunications carriers and carriage service providers to monitor their networks to identify scam calls, share information with other carriers and providers about scam calls, trace the origin of scam calls, combat number spoofing and block numbers being used for scam calls.
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4 November 2020 - Full Federal Court Dismisses Trivago's Appeal Against Breach of Australian Consumer LawThe Full Federal Court dismissed an appeal by Trivago against an earlier decision by the Federal Court that it had breached the Australian Consumer Law by making misleading representations that its website could quickly and easily identify the cheapest rates available for a given hotel without sufficiently disclosing to users that it used an algorithm which gave prominence to accommodation providers paying Trivago a higher cost per click fee so that the most prominent offers were not necessarily the cheapest.
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1 October 2020 - Intermediaries to Collect Data Under Amended Consumer Data Right RulesThe Australian Competition and Consumer Commission amended the Consumer Data Right Rules to authorise accredited intermediaries to collect consumer data on behalf of accredited businesses and allow more fintech firms to participate in the Consumer Data Right scheme by engaging outsourced IT infrastructure and software providers to connect to data holders' APIs instead of needing to separately develop their own APIs.
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16 September 2020 - Improving the Carriers' Telecommunications Powers and Immunities Framework Consultation PaperThe Commonwealth Department of Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development and Communications released a consultation paper seeking comments on proposals to improve the powers and immunities framework under the Telecommunications Act 1997 (Cth) which provides carriers with powers to deploy low-impact telecommunications facilities on private property without the consent of the landowner or occupier where the carrier has issued them with a valid land access notice in respect of the telecommunications facilities.
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