by AntcliffeScott | Sep 17, 2025 | Business, Finance, Insolvency, Liquidation, PPSR
Recent statistics released by ASIC show that more than 11,000 businesses entered into external administration during the 2023-24 financial year, a 39% increase from the previous year which saw 7,942 businesses go into external administration during the 2022-23...
by AntcliffeScott | Jun 24, 2025 | Business, Business Growth, Intellectual Property, IP Rights
In today’s business environment, timing is a critical element of successful business strategy. This is particularly true with regards to managing intellectual property (IP) in an ever-evolving global marketplace, as the effective creation and protection of...
by AntcliffeScott | Dec 5, 2024 | AML/CTF Regime, Anti-Money Laundering (AML), Business
Anti-money laundering (AML) laws are aimed at identifying, preventing and reporting suspicious financial transactions. Australia’s Anti-Money Laundering and Counter-Terrorism Financing regime (AML/CTF regime) provides the framework for businesses to help deter, detect...
by AntcliffeScott | Aug 1, 2024 | Business, Directors, Directorship, PPSR
Australia continues to resist falling into “technical” recession – measured as two consecutive quarters of negative growth – and unemployment remains logic-defyingly low. However, our small and medium business clients are telling us that these...
by AntcliffeScott | Jun 6, 2024 | Business, Computer Implemented Inventions (CIIs), Intellectual Property, IP Rights
With the constant development and advancement of digital technologies, we often get asked how computer implemented inventions (CIIs), processes and business systems can be protected. Whether or not CIIs are patentable subject matter is widely debated even by the...
by AntcliffeScott | Apr 28, 2024 | Business, Contracts, Unfair Contracts
As previously discussed in our piece: Unfair Contracts, Resetting the Balance Between Big and Small Businesses, new laws have been passed (effective as of 9 November 2023) that prohibit the use of “unfair contract terms” in standard form small business...
