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When can you use small print to qualify an advertisement?

When is it unlawful to refuse to supply to a retailer?

Can you assign a reseller to a territory?

Reasons for implementing a compliance program

Why use Wisewoulds?

About your trainer

How to find out more

Reasons for implementing a compliance program

Prosection could result in crippling financial penalties, both to your company and your individual employees.

Emploees cannot legally be indemnified any longer against fines and legal costs.

Did you know a compliance program can save you money?

If the worst should ever happen, a company with a satisfactory compliance program in place can expect to have penalties discounted by the courts

  1. "...establishing and maintaining a significant compliance program ... is a significant mitigating factor in penalty."
Justice Mansfield in
ACCC v Alice Car & Truck Rentals Pty Ltd
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Fixed cost compliance programs with optional extras

To help you keep your workforce on the straight and narrow, Wisewoulds run the only established program of its kind in Australia. Because we devote so much attention to compliance, our programs offer you the quickest and most cost effective way of assessing your risks and giving your staff the excellent support and training they need.

Developed and run by one of Australia's leading competition lawyers, the Wisewoulds Compliance Programs have been progressively refined over a period of 15 years.

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Manage your compliance budget with a fixed price program

If your needs are straightforward, our standard, fixed price program will suit you.

You'll get:-

  1. A Training workshop - Your staff are trained in-house by a specialist lawyer who is also an experienced instructor.
  2. Interactive DVD Rom - Provides cover for absentees, remote and new staff, as well as a refresher course. It includes:
    1. Training modules - devoted to specific compliance issues.
    2. Each module features workshop video footage, presentation notes, comprehension questions, and on-screen access to all your compliance materials.
    3. Staff testing - results easily imported into Excel for reporting.
  3. Compliance Guide - Cut down on reading time with this issues based manual.
  4. Regular Compliance Updates - updates on trade practices and related matters will be sent directly to all relevant staff regularly:
    • keeping them abreast of change; and
    • reminding them of the importance of compliance.
  5. Free Telephone Support - Talk to a specialist lawyer directly at no added cost as and when difficult issues arise.
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If you need a more Bespoke Solution

If your requirements are more complex, or you want a "no holds barred" approach to minimising risk, we offer:-

  1. A thorough audit of your systems and processes, to assess your risk profile.
  2. Customised Compliance Guide - with case studies based on your business to enhance understanding.
  3. Tailored Training Modules - As an add-on to the DVD Rom, we can provide case studies on specific points of law, tailored to your business.
  4. Compliance Outsourcing Service - We can take over many of the functions of your Compliance Officer, relieving one of the most onerous obligations of compliance. Some of tasks we can take over are:
    • schedule training on an agreed timetable;
    • ensure that new staff receive the compliance guide, review the DVD Rom and complete relevant testing;
    • obtain completed certificates from all workshop attendees and all new staff, indicating they have read and understood the compliance guide;
    • maintain a register of compliance guides so that the company has documented evidence that all relevant employees have a guide and records of the dates on which those guides are updated; and
    • draft reports to the Board on an agreed timetable for the Compliance Office to sign off.

We can give you peace of mind that you're fulfilling all your regulatory obligations.

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Why Use Wisewoulds?

Because we specialise in compliance, Wisewoulds offer you a level of thoroughness, expertise and efficiency that cannot be matched by a general law firm.

The benefits to your company:

  • Avoid the substantial cost of developing a program from scratch.
  • Implement your program quickly.
  • Your employees learn from an expert instructor on the subject.
  • Our economies of scale and efficiency translate to cost savings all round.

All Wisewoulds' compliance products are designed by reference to AS3806-2006

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About your trainer

Martin Algie

Special Counsel Martin Algie leads the Competition Group at Wisewoulds.

His compliance programs are the result of 15 years specialisation in the field and constant ongoing development.

He is the author of Market Definition, a book on competition law and is a regular columnist in B&T Magazine on the subject of Misleading and Deceptive Advertising.

Martin is also a member of the Australasian Compliance Institute.

Here is what clients have said about compliance programs Martin has conducted in the past:

  1. "Martin is an exceptional presenter and teacher. I was extremely happy with the program."
  2. Scott Browning, Marketing Director
  3. "Excellent."
  4. Hal Hiramatsu, Commercial Director
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How to find out about more

Speak to Martin Algie directly about your company's compliance needs call

9612 7307

or email: martin.algie@wisewoulds.com.au