It’s every ex-partner’s nightmare. You split with your boyfriend or girlfriend and before you know it they’re posting less than flattering, or even worse, risqué pictures and comments about you all over social media.
Did You Actually Shop Here? Fake Business Reviews:
Advertising your small business online is definitely the way to go these days, with potential to reach a large audience with a much smaller outlay than traditional media. With this in mind we thought we’d highlight a recent move by the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (“ACCC”) as a word of warning to business owners.
Swimwear Design and the Need to Protect Copyright:
The Importance of Having a Will in Place:
Employment Contracts and Implied Terms:
The Importance of a Shareholder Agreement:
When starting a new business there are three basic structures to choose from; a sole trader, a partnership, or a company, with each having its own advantages and disadvantages. When you choose a company as the structure for your business you will become a shareholder in that company with the other people you go into business with.
Invasions of Privacy in the Digital Era:
The Problem with Couple’s Having ‘Mirror Wills’:
When a married couple decide to update their wills it’s a common practice for them to enter into what is termed as a ‘mirror will’. This type of will provides that their entire estate will go to their spouse when they die and then when their spouse subsequently dies, the entire estate will go to the couple’s children.
The Difference Between Joint Tenants and Tenants in Common:
Business Owners are Publishers Too:
Are you a small business owner? Do you use social media as a tool in marketing your business? If you answered yes to these questions then you might not be aware that you are in fact in the eyes of the law considered to be a publisher and that the same media laws that apply to professions such as journalism also apply to you and the things you say online.