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Corporate governance for franchisors

  • Norton Rose LLP
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  • Australia
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  • September 24 2009

Corporate governance is the last thing on the mind of a start-up franchisor, and in many ways is irrelevant at the outset

Quick tips for franchisors - preparing your disclosure document

  • Norton Rose LLP
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  • Australia
  • -
  • September 24 2009

This month’s quick tips for franchisors relates to the disclosure document

Negligent driver pays for tram delays

  • Norton Rose LLP
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  • Australia
  • -
  • October 14 2009

Metrolink Victoria Pty Ltd (Yarra Trams) was successful in a recent Court of Appeal matter that will shape the future application of the test of reasonable foreseeability in our courts and redefine the range of losses recoverable from tortfeasors

Code changes still in the pipeline

  • Norton Rose LLP
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  • Australia
  • -
  • October 31 2009

The Federal Government is still considering the nature and extent of the changes necessary to the Franchising Code of Conduct

Substance over form in determining whether an agreement is a licence or a franchise

  • Norton Rose LLP
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  • Australia
  • -
  • October 31 2009

The ACCC has consistently stated that Franchisors cannot circumvent the Code by simply claiming that the agreement is not a franchise agreement

Execution of the franchise agreement

  • Norton Rose LLP
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  • Australia
  • -
  • October 31 2009

Franchisors have to operate their businesses within a complex, ever-growing regulatory environment

Changes to the Franchising Code and unconscionable conduct laws

  • Hall & Wilcox
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  • Australia
  • -
  • November 6 2009

The Commonwealth Government yesterday released its long-awaited response to the report of the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Corporations and Financial Services on franchising in Australia

Franchising reforms broadly welcomed

  • Norton Rose LLP
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  • Australia
  • -
  • November 6 2009

The franchise sector breathed a collective sigh of relief when the Minister for Small Business, Craig Emerson, announced the Government’s official response to the report of the recent Federal Parliamentary inquiry into franchising

Franchise Code options paper

  • Gilbert + Tobin
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  • Australia
  • -
  • June 23 2009

As noted in our earlier update of 15 December 2008, the government has been considering its response to the report by the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Corporations and Financial Services (the Committee) of 1 December 2008 entitled 'Opportunity not opportunism: improving conduct in Australian franchising'

Unfair contracts: the jurisdictional struggle continues

  • Norton Rose LLP
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  • Australia
  • -
  • July 14 2009

The longstanding Court battle between Caterpillar and its Australian distributor Gough & Gilmour had its latest instalment in the Court of Appeal last month with the Court of Appeal finding that the distribution agreement was not a contract for the performance of work in an industry

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