Thank you for visiting the website of Law Advice Compensation Lawyers (Law Advice).

These Terms & Conditions govern your use of this website. By using this website, you accept these terms and conditions in full, and you agree that the exclusions and limitations of liability set out in this website disclaimer are reasonable. If you disagree with these terms and conditions or any part of these terms and conditions, you must cease use of this website.

Copyright

Law Advice owns the intellectual property rights and copyright in the information and material contained on this site unless expressly stated to the contrary. None of the information or material on our website can be reproduced, duplicated, copied, adapted, distributed, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted without our prior written consent other than for the purposes set out in the Copyright Act 1986 (Commonwealth). You may view, download for caching purposes only, and print pages from the website for your own personal use, subject to the restrictions set out below and elsewhere in these Terms & Conditions. You must not:

  • republish material from this website without the express written consent of Law Advice;
  • sell, rent or sub-license material from the website;
  • show any material from the website in public without the express written consent of Law Advice;
  • reproduce, duplicate, copy or otherwise use material on this website for a commercial purpose;
  • edit or otherwise modify any material on the website;
  • redistribute material from this website without the express written consent of Law Advice.

Acceptable Use

You must not use this website in any way that causes, or may cause, damage to the website or impairment of the availability or accessibility of the website; or in any way which is unlawful, illegal, fraudulent or harmful, or in connection with any unlawful, illegal, fraudulent or harmful purpose or activity. You must not use this website to copy, store, host, transmit, send, use, publish or distribute any material which consists of (or is linked to) any spyware, computer virus, Trojan horse, worm, keystroke logger, rootkit or other malicious computer software. You must not conduct any systematic or automated data collection activities (including without limitation scraping, data mining, data extraction and data harvesting) on or in relation to this website without the express written consent of Law Advice.

Nature of Information and Material

This website provides a summary of the various laws, rights and entitlements that exist in the relevant state of Australia. Further, the website provides general information and general answers to questions that are frequently asked about the law. This is general information only and is not a substitute for obtaining individual legal advice. The information and other material on the Law Advice website is provided for your assistance and should not be relied on as legal advice or as a substitute for legal advice. The communication of information from this site does not and should not be taken by you to give rise to a Solicitor-Client relationship between you and us or any other party. Whilst we will make every effort to keep the information and other material on our website up-to-date, there may be delays, errors or omissions as a result of the rapid changes which occur in many of the practice areas which are the subject matter of our website.

Links

This website may contain links to other websites. Law Advice makes no representation or warranty as to the accuracy or any other aspect of the information or material on those sites. We are not responsible for the content, terms of use or privacy practices associated with linked websites. We do not have any arrangement and do not endorse or recommend any of the information, goods or services referred to on any of the linked websites.

Secure Data

Unfortunately, data transmissions over the internet cannot be guaranteed as completely secure. While we strive to protect such information, we cannot ensure or warrant the security of any information transmitted to us and individuals do so at their own risk. All information which is collected by us is stored subject to security measures which endeavour to protect against the loss, misuse, or alteration of information within our control. If you become aware of any problems with the security of the data or the website, please contact us immediately.

Warnings

We do not warrant the accuracy, adequacy or completeness of the information, nor do we undertake to keep this website updated. The information on this website is not, and is not intended to be, advice. Nothing on this website constitutes, or is meant to constitute, advice of any kind. You should not act or refrain to act on the basis of any of the material on this website without first satisfying yourself as to the truth or accuracy of all information provided.

This website is provided “as is” without any representations or warranties, express or implied.  Law Advice makes no representations or warranties in relation to this website or the information and materials provided on this website. Without prejudice to the generality this paragraph, Law Advice does not warrant that this website will be constantly available, or available at all; or the information on this website is complete, true, accurate or non-misleading. We do not accept responsibility for loss suffered as a result of reliance by you on the accuracy or currency of information contained on this website.

Limitation of Liability

We are not liable for any loss or damage, however caused (including, but not limited to, by our negligence) suffered by you in connection with these terms and conditions or your use of this website. If the Competition and Consumer Act 2010 (Cth) or any other legislation states that there is a guarantee in respect of goods or services supplied, and our liability for failing to comply with that guarantee may not be excluded but may be limited, our liability for such failure is limited to, in the case of a supply of goods, replacing the goods or supplying equivalent goods or repairing the goods, or in the case of supply of services, supplying the services again or paying the cost of having the services supplied again.

Indemnity

You agree to indemnify us for all damages, losses, penalties, fines, expenses and costs (including legal costs) which arise out of or relate to your use of this website, any information that you provide to us via this website or any damage that you may cause to this website.  This indemnification includes, without limitation, liability relating to copyright infringement, defamation, invasion of privacy, trade mark infringement and breaches of the law.

You hereby indemnify Law Advice and undertake to keep Law Advice indemnified against any losses, damages, costs, liabilities and expenses (including without limitation legal expenses and any amounts paid by Law Advice to a third party in settlement of a claim or dispute on the advice of Law Advice’s legal advisers) incurred or suffered by Law Advice arising out of any breach by you of any provision of these terms and conditions, or arising out of any claim that you have breached any provision of these terms and conditions.

Access

Access to this website may be withdrawn at any time without notice.  These terms and conditions will survive any such withdrawal.

Governing Law and Jurisdiction

These terms and conditions will be governed by and construed in accordance with the law of New South Wales, Australia, and any disputes relating to these terms and conditions will be subject to the non-exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of New South Wales, Australia.

Viruses

Law Advice makes no representation or warranty that the material on this site is free from viruses or other defects. We strongly recommend that prior to using any downloaded file, you carry out an appropriate virus check. You must take your own precautions to ensure that the process that you employ for accessing this website does not expose you to the risk of viruses, malicious computer code, or other forms of interference which may damage your own computer system.  For the removal of doubt, we do not accept responsibility for any interference or damage to your own computer system which arises in connection with your use of this website or any linked website.

Unenforceable Provisions

If any provision of these website Terms & Conditions is, or is found to be, unenforceable under applicable law, that will not affect the enforceability of the other provisions of this website disclaimer. If a provision of these terms and conditions is determined by any court or other competent authority to be unlawful and/or unenforceable, the other provisions will continue in effect. If any unlawful and/or unenforceable provision would be lawful or enforceable if part of it were deleted, that part will be deemed to be deleted, and the rest of the provision will continue in effect.

Breaches of These Terms & Conditions

Without prejudice to Law Advice’s other rights under these terms and conditions, if you breach these terms and conditions in any way, Law Advice may take such action as it deems appropriate to deal with the breach, including suspending your access to the website, prohibiting you from accessing the website, blocking computers using your IP address from accessing the website, contacting your internet service provider to request that they block your access to the website and/or bringing court proceedings against you.

Variation

Law Advice may revise these terms and conditions from time-to-time. Revised terms and conditions will apply to the use of this website from the date of the publication of the revised terms and conditions on this website. Please check this page regularly to ensure you are familiar with the current version.