The Senate has passed the Corporations Amendment (Financial Advice Measures) Bill (formerly known as the Corporations Amendment (Streamlining of Future of Financial Advice) Bill 2014 with bipartisan support which essentially completes the FOFA process making some...
We had previously provided an update on the Treasury Legislation Amendment (Small Business Unfair Contract Terms) Bill 2015 which proposed to extend the consumer unfair contract term protections to standard form small business contracts and allow unfair terms to be...
The Hon Scott Morrison and the Hon Kelly O’Dwyer released the Government’s response to the Financial System Inquiry today in which the Government accepted the majority of the inquiry’s recommendations and included six additional measures (the six...
Mark recently presented at the 28th LawAsia Conference on consumer protection issues in insurance. For a copy of the presentation slides email us a request at [email protected]
FOS has released a document in Circular, Issue 23 – October 2015 explaining its approach to disputes where an insurer denies a claim because a general insurance contract was cancelled due to the consumer failing to pay a premium. To request a full summary of the...
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