Australia: Digital Platforms and Unfair Contract Terms

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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.

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.

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