Australia: Digital Platforms and Unfair Contract Terms
Written By
Kate Morton
Special Counsel
Australia
As a Special Counsel in our Tech & Comms, Commercial and Corporate Groups in Sydney, I advise our leading clients on a wide variety of technology, communications and IP law issues, where my experience as a software engineer and consultant gives me additional practical insight.
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In Recommendation 20 of the Final Report of the Digital Platforms Inquiry, the ACCC has recommended that the Australian Consumer Law (ACL) in Schedule 2 to the Competition and Consumer Act 2010 (Cth) be amended to introduce a prohibition on the use of unfair contract terms in standard form consumer or small business contracts.
