Drug Driving in NSW: What Many Drivers Still Don’t Realise Many drivers are surprised to learn they can be charged with drug driving in NSW even if they do not feel impaired at the time they are stopped by police. Unlike alcohol-related offences, criminal drug driving in NSW is not based on whether a person is affected or unsafe to drive. Drug driving relates [...]

EOFY Legal Risks Business Owners Shouldn’t Ignore As the end of financial year approaches, many businesses focus heavily on tax planning, budgets, and financial reporting. But EOFY is also one of the best times to review the legal side of your business. In practice, many of the disputes and costly issues businesses face throughout the year can often be traced back to legal gaps [...]

Cyber Crime in 2026: The Risk Landscape Has Shifted. Cyber crime did not slow down after 2025, it accelerated. For Australian businesses, particularly small and mid-sized enterprises (SMEs), 2026 is shaping up to be a year of higher exposure, tighter regulation and significantly greater consequences for poor data governance. If your business holds client, employee, financial or health information, cyber risk is no longer just [...]

Does the Bed Bath ‘N’ Table case apply to your business? When businesses think about the legal risks of a brand name or logo, they usually focus on trade mark law: Is the name registered? Will it infringe someone else’s logo? But Australian law goes further than trade marks. Under the Australian Consumer Law (ACL), businesses must not mislead or deceive consumers about their goods [...]

The festive season is a time of joy, celebration, and gift-giving. However, not every gift is a perfect match. Whether it’s a case of a product not meeting expectations or being outright faulty, many of us find ourselves navigating the process of returning or exchanging Christmas gifts. Understanding your rights as a consumer under Australian law can make this process much easier and less stressful. [...]

Businesses are encouraged to review and update their terms and conditions (T&Cs) to establish clear contractual rights and obligations regarding payments. This call to action follows a landmark decision by the Western Australian District Court involving an invoice scam that resulted in significant financial losses for one company. In March and April 2022, Mobius issued invoices to Inoteq totalling $235,400 for services rendered. Unbeknownst to [...]

The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) has launched legal action against Woolworths and Coles separately in the Federal Court, accusing the supermarket giants of misleading consumers with false discount claims on hundreds of products. According to the ACCC, the discounts advertised by the supermarkets were allegedly not genuine and were misleading to shoppers. The ACCC became aware of this issue through consumer complaints and [...]