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13 Feb 2025
Confidentiality Agreements: Protecting Your Information
Confidential information may be confidential for a range of reasons. It might be a trade secret—something that must...
04 Mar 2024
Brand Protection: Strategies for Defending your Rights
Different businesses gain value in different ways. But in almost all cases, a business’s brand accounts for a...
22 Sep 2023
Product Liability: What Manufacturers, Importers, and Vendors Need to Know
Product liability is an area of law with some unusual features. In fact, there’s relatively little awareness...
18 Aug 2022
Service Agreements: A Service Provider’s Perspective
Service agreements are an important part of business. Often, they are considered from a...
27 Feb 2022
Environmental Crimes: Liability for Commercial Environmental Damage
Environmental considerations form the parameters of almost all commercial conduct. Those parameters are set by numerous laws, which have...
06 Feb 2022
Buy Sell Agreements – When Tragedy Strikes an Owner
Co-owners structure their ownership interests in many ways. The impact of tax laws, specific industry regulation and an owner’s desire to...
28 Jan 2022
Cyber Crimes in Queensland
The laws surrounding cyber crimes are more relevant now, than ever. Cyber crimes can affect businesses in a plethora of ways. It is poss...
20 Dec 2021
Embezzlement Laws in Queensland: How do They Affect You?
Embezzlement is a white collar crime with a bit of a reputation. Generally, embezzlement is associated with greed, and reserved for films...
30 Oct 2021
Market Manipulation: what it is and how to avoid it
Financial crimes are gaining wider recognition among the business community, and the community at large. However, market manipulation...
30 Sep 2021
Money Laundering: Queensland’s Law
Money laundering is something that has been in the news a bit lately. During the lead up to the Royal Commission into Banking, a lot was
18 Aug 2020
IP Rights: When Does Your Business Own What Employees Create?
All businesses create value. They may do it in different ways, but the creation of value is what underpins commerce...
17 Feb 2020
Social Media Marketing and the Law: The Small Business Guide
Starting a new business requires careful planning. It also requires publicity. Publicity is what connects you to...
25 Aug 2019
Fraud in Business: Recognising the Signs
In terms of business-related crimes, fraud is among the more common. However, recognising fraud is more challenging...
24 Jul 2019
Criminal Anti-Competition Laws in Australia
Business and competition go hand in hand. For a business to grow, that business must compete with others in its field...
10 Jul 2019
Bribery of Government Officials: An Offence in the Commonwealth Criminal Code
Bribery is a widely accepted and well-known crime. It is not unique to Australia, and most consider it a pretty easy...
15 Jun 2019
Corporate Criminal Liability: Criminality and the Divide Between Individuals and Companies
Introduction It has long been recognised in Australia that companies may be held liable for the crimes they commit...
22 May 2019
The Tort of Intimidation: When is it a Crime and When is it a Tort?
Introduction The idea of intimidation in a business context is concerning to any business owner. It’s not common, but...
01 May 2019
When Does Defamation Affect your Business and What Can you do About it?
Introduction Of the economic torts, defamation is emerging as one that we see more frequently than others. It is also...
03 Apr 2019
Deliberate and Direct Interference: The Tumultuous Tort of Inducing Breach of Contract
Introduction A contractual relationship is not often considered within the scope of torts law. In fact, it is a...
05 Mar 2019
Economic Torts: Limits on the Conduct of Business
Introduction The world of business is inherently competitive. Often, business owners can feel as though they’re on...
03 Feb 2019
What is Insider Trading?
Insider trading is a financial crime. Although it does not receive quite as much attention as other financial crimes...
01 Feb 2019
Protecting Commercial Information: Confidentiality Agreements and the Duty of Confidence
Introduction Confidential information may not be something that most people associate with ordinary business. However...
07 Jan 2019
What is a Guarantor?
Introduction In any commercial agreement or transaction, financial security is key. All parties to an agreement want...
01 Oct 2018
Manufacturing Agreements - What You Need To Consider
What is it? A manufacturing agreement is a contract between the developer or owner of a product and the person or...
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