Talking Law

We bring back Grace Yi to talk about this interesting and useful topic on brand protection. In this episode, we break down each element to make sure you get a mark that can be registered and is protectable.

Ben Fewtrell of Max My Profit joins us in this episode to share some very important lessons, insights, and warnings that he learned from his years of experience of handling and helping businesses grow.

In this episode, we drill into the legal elements that are involved when you're considering branding or rebranding because the brand development phase is indeed one of the most vulnerable periods for a business in relation to brand.

New data breach notification laws will come into effect on the 22nd of February 2018. So this week, we brought in our resident privacy expert Grace Yi to discuss this new scheme and help you prepare for these changes and avoid some serious penalties for non-compliance under this new legislation.

We’re on our final half hour of our two-part series on brand strategy and rebranding for businesses with Sophie Bartho, founder and managing director of Brandswell. In this episode, we run through some rebranding success stories and on the flip side, we also talk about what can go wrong when rebranding isn’t done right.

Welcome to part one another insightful two-part series. In this episode, we introduce you to the fascinating world of brand strategy and rebranding for businesses both large and small. To help us dig deeper into this area, we brought along Sophie Bartho, founder and managing director of Brandswell - a boutique agency focused on brand strategy and communication.

In this episode, we continue our series about effective contracting relationships by taking a look at creative contracts both from the position of client, and from the position of the creative agency themselves.

Welcome to another Quick Tips Session! This episode is part one of an exciting two-part series where we go through our four top tips in creating contracts that are as effective as they could be in backing up the relationship that we are trying to create.

Welcome to another Quick Tips Session! This episode is part one of an exciting two-part series where we go through our four top tips in creating contracts that are as effective as they could be in backing up the relationship that we are trying to create.

Welcome to another Quick Tips session! In less than 10 minutes, we'll give you six simple tips to help strengthen the debt collection process in your business.

With the increasing importance of a web presence for businesses, so too comes the increasing risks associated with competing domain names. Whilst you may have taken steps to ensure that you hold the .com or .com.au domain names for your business, what can you do to stop your competitor...

Two cases under the Unfair Contracts Legislation have now hit the courts in September this year. Find out what clauses the ACCC deemed unfair, what industries they’re targeting and what they’re seeking out of all this.

To close this two-part series on the area of insolvency risks with Antony de Vries of the DVT Group, we dig deeper into the warning signals and discuss the underlying concepts that business owners and their accountants should be looking out for.

To open this two-part series, we look into the real risks of company insolvency and what to do when it's calling on the door. Antony de Vries, the founding partner of DVT Group, joins us and shares his insights from his decades of experience helping...

New changes to legislation relating to surcharges on credit card transactions came into effect on the 1st of September 2017! In about 10 minutes, learn everything you need to know about what these changes mean for your business, whether large or small.

In this session of Quick Tips, we'll talk about business structure; the different types and the top two things to look into when you're considering whether or not your business structure is correct today and for where your business might be into the future.

How does the unfair contracts legislation work for small businesses? Learn the answer to this question in this Quick Tips session.

Welcome to the very first episode in our Quick Tips series. In this episode, we talk about the risks with profit share and revenue share deals and how we can deal with them contractually.

We are joined by Elizabeth Lee, who is sharing crucial insight into the important documents that need to be used at the beginning of a transaction to set out the commercial terms that the parties have agreed to, and the extent to which these are legally binding. We are talking specifically about heads of agreements and memorandums of understanding.

In this episode, we discuss issues relating to descriptive trade marks. We are also giving out our Trade mark Information Pack if you’re interested in finding out how trade mark registration might work for you.

What is sham contracting? And what are the consequences of incorrectly classifying an employee as an independent contractor? Elizabeth Lee answers these questions through lessons learned from a recent action against a Pizza Hut franchisee.

Is your marketing strategy within the legal bounds? Here are five tips you need to keep in mind to keep you out of the legal traps in marketing.

The issue of terminating employees can be a really difficult area for employers to navigate. And it's an issue that comes up time and time again with our clients. To give this subject the proper treatment that it deserves, we have on board Jayne Qorraj, who heads up the Employment and Litigation division at Aspect Legal.

We're all about trying to save our clients and our listeners on this show from some of the issues that we have seen in the past. To do just that, we've invited our very own trade marks expert at Aspect Legal, Grace Yi, to talk about the common mistakes that people make in this area.

If you're a small business or if you deal with small businesses as contractors or as suppliers, you should really be thinking about how this new legislation might apply in your business situations and what the legislation means for you and your organisation in the approach that you're taking to your contracts.