This text is designed to enable those in business, lawyers, and students to ascertain and understand the key legal principles that apply to the marketing of goods and services. Drawn from a broad range of areas of law, aspects of marketing covered include the manufacture, packaging, labelling, promotion, distribution, and retailing of goods and services. The discussion includes numerous case examples, diagrams and flowcharts to support learning.
The sixth edition has been fully revised, with many recent case law and statutory amendments, including:
changes to the CCA following the implementation of the Harper Report
amendments to CCA s 46 relating to misuse of market power
changes arising from the Australian Consumer Law Review
updated penalty information including alignment of ACL and CCA penalties
impact of ACL s 18 on search engine optimisation
changes to country of origin product labelling requirements
changes to the duration of copyright protection
new provisions dealing with online copyright infringement
decisions in Ultra Tune and Geowash (Franchising Code good faith obligation and other Code and ACL breaches)
Includes plentiful case examples, tables, flow charts & diagrams
Organised to follow the progress of products from concept to market
Supported by resources for lecturer use
Related Titles
• Coleman et al, Law in Commerce, 7th ed, 2020
• Graw et al, Understanding Business Law, 9th ed, 2019
• George et al, Social Media and the Law, 3rd ed, 2020
Mark Bender has lectured at Monash, Swinburne and Deakin universities, been Director of Education, received teaching and research awards, taught and presented papers internationally, conducted research for government and is widely published.
Susan Carter is an experienced commercial lawyer and lecturer who has taught competition and consumer law and business law to law, business and marketing students at undergraduate and post-graduate levels.
Simone Lockhart has extensive experience in law and marketing having worked as both a corporate lawyer and in professional services marketing at a leading commercial law firm. Simone teaches at the University of Sydney Business School.
Samantha Christie has taught intellectual property law, marketing & competition law and worked in private legal practice and in-house as marketing lawyer for a top 100 globally listed FMCG company.