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Trade Practices Law

How can we help you?

Holley Nethercote Commercial Lawyers can assist your business in relation to trade practices issues, from providing advice, through to assisting in commercial dispute resolution if necessary.

Trade practices tutorial

Trade practices law is a far reaching and complex area of law. To assist you in your understanding, feel free to read through the following four-step tutorial:

Step 1: What is trade practices law?

Step 2: What is consumer protection?

Step 3: What are restrictive trade practices?

Step 4: What if I breach the Trade Practices Act?

Trade Practices Resources

Below are a number of useful government links:

Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC)
The ACCC website provides information and news relating to competition and fair trade in the market place, as part of its responsibility to ensure that individuals and businesses comply with the competition, fair trading and consumer protection laws.

Consumer Affairs Victoria
This site provides information on rights and responsibilities of consumers and traders, business licence information and much more.

Australian Government Treasury - Trade Practices Act review
Provides the governments response to the latest Trade Practices Act review

Holley Nethercote employees and partners

Trade Practices Training

Do your directors know what they can and can't do? What is market collusion? What is price fixing? What is third line forcing? What is illegal competitive behaviour? What is the role of the ACCC?

Whether you need tailored face-to-face Trade Practices training or would prefer a public seminar, our associated training business, Compact - Compliance & Corporate Training, has a corporate training solution for you. Click here to see what the course entails.

ACCC Enforceable Undertaking (EU) and Compliance Audits

If you have entered into an EU with the ACCC, then you may need a compliance consultant to do an audit of your compliance practices. We can help - click here to see how.