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Is your Credit Documentation and Terms of Trade Unfair?

Is your Credit Documentation and Terms of Trade Unfair?
This article first appeared in Credit Management Magazine, October 2023. Read full Magazine here.

With the introduction of Unfair Contract Terms Regime on November 9th, it is more important than ...

Beyond Legal Practice: Results Legal’s Approach for Exceptional Client Service

Beyond Legal Practice: Results Legal’s Approach for Exceptional Client Service
In a recent video, Results Legal Managing Director, Karl Hill, shared insights into the firm’s philosophy and approach to commercial litigation. With 15 years of national service across diverse industries, ...

Maria Schandl, Stramit on her experience with Results Legal

Maria Schandl, Stramit on her experience with Results Legal

When it comes to trade credit, it’s crucial to have a reliable and trustworthy legal partner who can offer sound advice.

We asked Maria Schandl, the National Credit Manager for ...

[Webinar] Unfair Contract Term Changes are Imminent [hosted by BICB]

[Webinar] Unfair Contract Term Changes are Imminent [hosted by BICB]
Nicholas Boyce discusses the impact of the Treasury Law Amendments (More competition, Better Prices) Act 2022 (Cth) on businesses.

This session was presented at a seminar titled “Unfair Contract Terms ...

Unfair Contract Terms Checklist

Unfair Contract Terms Checklist

From 9 November, 2023, sweeping reforms of the unfair contract terms regime will commence.
This checklist aims to help you assess your standard form contracts and identify any terms that ...

Unfair Contract Terms Regime – Key Questions

Unfair Contract Terms Regime – Key Questions

In what we regard as onerous and punitive reforms, the new unfair contract terms law (UCT) coming into effect on 9 November this year will affect thousands of businesses’ standard ...

Results Legal: New Brand Explained [Video]

Results Legal: New Brand Explained [Video]

We recently celebrated our 15-year milestone with the launch of a new brand and website.

This short video provides context to our new brand and the meaning behind our ...

[Webinar] The New Unfair Contracts Terms: What it means for your business

[Webinar] The New Unfair Contracts Terms: What it means for your business

Onerous and punishing – the new unfair contract terms regime will affect thousands of businesses standard form of contracts.

Is your business prepared for the changes? 

Join us at 12pm ...

Set-Off And Peak-Indebtedness Get The Axe In MJ Woodman And Badenoch Logging Judgments

Set-Off And Peak-Indebtedness Get The Axe In MJ Woodman And Badenoch Logging Judgments

The High Court delivered two judgments on 8 February 2023 to bring about the most significant development to the unfair preference laws and ended many years of uncertainty in relation ...

Be Our Guest at the International Women’s Day WINC Webinar

Be Our Guest at the International Women's Day WINC Webinar

As a proud sponsor of Women in Credit (WINC), we invite you to the first WINC Webinar for 2023, celebrating International Women’s Day on Wednesday, 8th March.

Join speaker Rowena ...

2023 Hill Family Scholarship Winner Announced

2023 Hill Family Scholarship Winner Announced

In what our MD Karl Hill said was one of his favourite moments of the year, he and his wife Sarah returned to their alma mater to present the Hill ...

Celebrating Our Principal Promotions

Celebrating Our Principal Promotions

We at Results Legal live by the ‘work hard, play hard’ mantra. So when two of our graduate intake lawyers were promoted to Principal (in 6 ½ years – a ...

Announcing Our 2022 Associate Promotions

Announcing Our 2022 Associate Promotions

We are pleased to announce the recent promotion of Charlotte Evans and Kate Molkentin to Associates.

Over the course of last financial year, Charlotte and Kate achieved outstanding results for ...

Results Legal Founds Scholarship Program to Support Regional QLD Students

Results Legal Founds Scholarship Program to Support Regional QLD Students

Results Legal Managing Director, Karl Hill and his wife Sarah Hill announce the first recipient winner of the Hill Family Scholarship Program.  

As former students at Mackay State High ...

82 years on, the ‘wives special equity’ law is still a valuable case to call on

82 years on, the ‘wives special equity’ law is still a valuable case to call on

On 15 September 2021, the District Court of New South Wales handed down a judgment in Hume Plasterboards v Best Interiors[1] which reaffirmed the ‘wives’ special equity’, otherwise known as the Yerkey v ...

Important Lessons for Guarantors

Important Lessons for Guarantors

In the recent Court of Appeal case of Rowe v Metroll SA Pty Ltd[1] a guarantor (the appellant) was unsuccessful in arguing that he was not liable to the respondent under a ...

Negotiating Shareholders Agreements – What About the IP?

Negotiating Shareholders Agreements – What About the IP?

Businesspeople will be familiar with the process of implementing shareholders agreements to govern the relationship between shareholders to set them up for a successful business relationship.  These agreements should be ...

Do your terms of sale apply? Are you sure?

Do your terms of sale apply? Are you sure?

When it comes to written agreements in a commercial context, attention is often paid to the drafting and scope of terms. However, evidence suggests, that often, “incorporation” of those terms ...