Legal

All company directors subject to the Corporations Act must have a unique ID number by November 30. Here’s how to do it

Under the current UCT rules, UCTs in specific standard form contracts formed with consumers or certain categories of small businesses may be declared void and unenforceable by a court.

Toby explains the most common ADR clauses in commercial contracts, and best practises for writing them.

Your new obligations as a director of an Australian business.

The second article in our series explaining the practical application of alternative dispute resolution systems and processes in the commercial world.

Alternative dispute resolution is one way to avoid the potential financial and reputational costs associated with litigation.

Looking to export? Here are the legal issues you should consider before expanding overseas, including your tax, employees and customers.

The handling, transportation and disposal of waste require strict compliance with the various regulatory frameworks that exist in different jurisdictions. Here’s what you need to know.

There are four key actions that small business owners should take immediately, to ensure they are well positioned once they, or their suppliers, come off JobKeeper this month.

The Federal Court has ruled that Google misled some of its Australian customers about how it collected personal location data between 2017 and 2018.

Understanding the legal aspects of franchising – documentation, business structures, IP, and compliance – is vital when creating a successful franchise.

“COVID Safe Harbour” insolvency rules have been replaced by legislation that includes a new, streamlined SME restructuring process…

When a pandemic effects a revolution, by making remote work common, employers must re-think their approach. They have to answer this question: How do you ensure a safe place of work when that place is an employee’s home?
Here are three practical suggestions.

As JobKeeper closes, businesses may need to reduce headcount to keep wage bills affordable. Here’s how to approach a restructure legally and effectively…

Hacking and data breaches have become increasingly common for business owners and leaders. Here’s what you need to know…

If you think the only way to sell your business in the current environment is through a fire sale, think again. Dynamic Business explains everything you need to know about intangible assets.

In light of Australia’s impending roll-out of a COVID-19 vaccine in March, a major consideration for employers will be whether they can direct their employees to have the vaccine.

I’m a former victim of extreme workplace bullying. For more than three years, I worked in the global resources industry in Australia, running health and well-being programs and striving to create safe, healthy and productive work environments for a mostly-male workforce. To anyone looking in from the outside, it would have seemed I was powering […]

Dynamic Business revisits a highly interesting topic on how verbal promises become legally binding, what that looks like and when it becomes “official.” In 2013, Lachlan McKnight gave us his expertise on the matter, helping small business owners understand where that line is.  Lachlan is the CEO of LegalVision. He co-founded LegalVision in 2012 with […]

Australia is thriving with over 1,300 franchise businesses in a range of industries, earning over $181 billion dollars in revenue and continually growing. [1] In recent times, however, more franchisees have found themselves in a dispute against their franchisor. These problems generally arise for one of two reasons – either the franchisee has not been advised […]