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Thursday, 25 August 2016

Be prepared for small business unfair contract laws

Further to our blogs of July 2015 http://nfcommerciallawyers.blogspot.com/2015/07/proposed-protection-to-small-businesses.html and April 2016 http://nfcommerciallawyers.blogspot.com/2016/04/protection-to-small-businesses-from.html, from 12 November 2016 amendments to the Australian Consumer Law will come into operation which are aimed to protect small businesses from unfair terms in standard form contracts. Standard form contracts are contracts where the terms and conditions are set by one party and the counter-party has little or no opportunity...