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In a recent discussion piece entitled: Regulate Recruitment: Why? How? questions were posed about why and how the emerging recruitment profession and employment services industry could be regulated.  That discussion prompted a [...]

The Australian Consumer Law (“ACL”) makes void terms in standard form consumer contracts that are unfair. The Australian Competition & Consumer Commission (“ACCC”) recently reviewed standard form consumer contracts in the airline, [...]

Recruiters might be interested, in light of recent discussion about industry regulation, to see how the pieces may already be coming together: Australian Consumer Law is changed in 2010 to include unfair consumer [...]

In the face of the most recent call, this time from industry insiders, to regulate the Australian recruitment industry I am left asking two questions: Why? How? It’s not that the industry [...]

Earlier this week the NSW Court of Appeal in Resource Pacific Pty Ltd v Wilkinson [2103] NSWCA 33 considered the question of the adequacy of judicial reasons for judgment. The following is [...]

Yesterday the Victorian Court of Appeal handed down a decision on the qualification of psychiatrists to give expert evidence as to the common behaviour of child victims of sexual abuse within families [...]

Last Thursday, 29th November 2012, legislation trumpeted as the biggest change in 20 years to Australian privacy laws was passed.  The lead time to implementation is 15 months, which should see the [...]

A $110,000 infringement notice payment might represent only a fraction of the real cost to Tiger Airways of addressing its recent Spam Act breaches. In December 2011,  the Australian Communications & Media Authority (ACMA) commenced [...]

Termination of  Weekly Compensation – The 60 Day Dilemma!                                      by Sandra Taglieri Frequently, lawyers [...]

General Principles Appeals on Damages – Part 6 by Craig Hobbs POTTS V FROST – FULL COURT – CONTINGENCIES   It is trite to say that when assessing future components of a [...]