'We work with over 400 small businesses a year. Many of their problems are legal ones, or end up being one. This book is as good a guide a small business will get to the law it needs to know.' Steve Lawrence, Sydney Business Enterprise Centre 'Outstanding! It manages to be both comprehensive and readable, a terrific achievement given our State and federal laws. Its case examples are spot on.' David Robinson, Robinson Gerard & Co, Adelaide Are you thinking of setting up a business? Hiring or firing staff? Contracting with a supplier? Putting up some signs? Are you in a dispute with a customer? What are your obligations? And what are your rights? Your Business and the Law is the ideal guide to answer your immediate legal questions. With short chapters, thoroughly indexed, you can find the advice you need quickly. What you will find is a straight-talking guide to the legal issues which arise in the life of your business. In a practical and non-legalistic style, the law is clearly and briefly explained, using examples to illustrate how it works in many common situations. Have a look in Your Business and the Law when you h
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JAN BOWEN is a specialist in Plain English communication who has reinvented lay guides to the law. Her 25 titles include the bestsellers The Macquarie Easy Guide To Australian Law and The Macquarie Home Guide To Health And Medicine.
RICHARD SCHMIDT is the senior partner at Bull, Son + Schmidt of St Leonards, and comes highly recommended from the NSW Office of Small Business.
PrefaceAbbreviationsPART 1 ESTABLISHING A BUSINESS1. Starting Out2. A partnership3. Companies, trading trusts and joint ventures4. Acquiring a franachise5. Acquiring premisesPART 2 OPERATING A BUSINESS6. Legal documents7. Consumer protection obligations8. Unfair trading9. Granting credit10. Employing staff11. Principal and agent12. Protecting business ideas and information13. Negligence and liability14. Insurance15. The bank16. Tax17. Bankruptcy and insolvencyPART 3 THE LEGAL SYSTEM18. How the legal system operatesIndex