Posts tagged "legal dispute"

The Morrison government will consider whether to outlaw unfair contracts for small businesses next year, over a year after its initial announcement.

In a busy week for government, unfair insurance contracts are on the agenda, alongside measures to restrict cash payments.

The government will not hold a consultation on whether to outlaw unfair contracts until "late-2019", as renewed calls surface to get on with it.

Uncontroversial access to justice reforms are set to become a political football next week as the government faces losing a second vote in the lower house.

Labor will make unfair contract terms illegal if it wins the next election — its latest move to strengthen its small-business platform.

Australian small businesses are losing thousands to legal battles, according to a new report looking at access to justice for SMEs released by ASBFEO.

An ACCC blitz has prompted Visy, Cleanaway and Suez to change their contract terms, over concern several clauses may have been unfair.

The consumer watchdog has launched legal proceedings in the Federal Court against Europcar Australia claiming a number of terms in its car r…

Earlier this year, in a case between the Fire Brigade Employees’ Union of NSW (on behalf of Brendan O’Donnell) the Fire & Rescue NSW, O’…