Key information on using this website
This Terms of Use and Legal Notices section provides important information about how Mallesons is organised and sets out or refers to the terms governing your use of the website. The location specific notices provide further information on Mallesons, including information required by the law and by regulators in the relevant location. If you are in any doubt about any of this information, please contact us (see details below).
USE BY YOU OF ANY INFORMATION ON THIS WEBSITE CONSTITUTES YOUR ACCEPTANCE OF THESE TERMS OF USE AND LEGAL NOTICES.
This website provides information on and material containing matters of interest produced by Mallesons. The material on this website is provided only for your information and does not constitute legal or other advice on any specific matter. Users of this website requiring or seeking legal advice are responsible for obtaining such advice from their own lawyers, and should do so before taking, or refraining from taking, any action in reliance on any information on this website. This website is not intended to and does not create any client/lawyer relationship between any user and any Mallesons firm.
In this Terms of Use and Legal Notices section "you" and "user" means the individual accessing this website and where that access is made in a business context any company or other organisation of which that individual is an officer, partner, member, employee or agent and other members of the same group as that company or other organisation to whom information on this website is passed.
You need not disclose your identity to us in order to use this website. However you may use this website to provide information including personal information to us and this website may use "cookies" to collect anonymous traffic data from you and other users who access this website. The internet servers may also automatically record details about any computer used to access the website (such as the IP address, domain name and browser type), the date and time of access, and details of the information downloaded. Please see the Privacy Statement for information about how we use and handle personal information provided to or collected by us and about your agreement to the use of that information.
These Terms of Use and Legal Notices and any dispute or claim arising out of or in connection with the website and your use of it, whether of a contractual or non-contractual nature, are governed by and are to be construed in accordance with the laws of New South Wales, Australia. The courts of New South Wales are to have non-exclusive jurisdiction to settle any dispute arising out of or in connection with this website and your use of it.
About Mallesons
Mallesons refers to the following firms and their associated service companies:
- Mallesons, a partnership in Australia; and
- Mallesons LLP, a Singapore limited liability partnership
All references on this website to " Mallesons", "the firm", "we" or "us" mean, except where clearly stated, one or more of the Mallesons member firms and their associated service companies.
Legal services are provided independently by each of the separate Mallesons member firms. No member firm or any of its partners or members acts as agent for any other member firm or any of its partners or members. No individual partner or member in any member firm has authority to bind any other member firm.
Mallesons - Partners and offices
Where in this website we refer to an individual as a 'partner' we are referring to an individual who is a partner or member of a Mallesons member firm or an employee or consultant in such a member firm with equivalent standing and qualifications to such a partner or member. Where in this website we refer to a Mallesons "office" we are referring to an office of a Mallesons member firm.
Your responsibilities as user
You are responsible for the consequences of your own decisions as to the use of the information and material contained in the website, and its possible application to any circumstances you may be facing. It is for you to decide whether you should obtain legal advice. You do not have to be a client of Mallesons to use the website.
You may only view, download or print content from this website for your non-commercial, personal or internal business use. You must obtain our prior written consent if you wish to use or reproduce any content from the website for any other reason. This does not allow you in any form or by any means to:
- Use any part of the website for an illegal purpose or in a way which is inaccurate or misleading or offensive, or which brings Mallesons or any of its partners, other lawyers or employees into disrepute
- Reproduce all or any material part of the content or design of this website, adapt, store in a retrieval system, transmit, print, display, perform, or publish or create derivative works from, any part of the content or design of this website
- Cause any of the material on this website to be framed or embedded in another website
- Commercialise any information, products or services on this website
except with our prior written consent or as permitted by applicable copyright law.
We reserve the right to exclude persons who do not respect the Terms of Use.
Website content
Except where another jurisdiction is specified, legal content on this website is based on laws applicable in the country or jurisdiction to which the page relates or in which the author practises. Material on this website may be updated and amended from time to time, and may not reflect the most recent legal developments.
Although you may be able to access this website in a jurisdiction in which Mallesons does not have an office (or has an office that does not practice local law), Mallesons does not represent that any of the member firms or any of their lawyers is permitted to provide legal advice on the laws of that jurisdiction.
Lawyer/Attorney Advertising
This website gives you information on the expertise and experience of our people, in particular our lawyers. Their success in the past does not guarantee a similar outcome in the future. Legal and commercial outcomes in the future, or where the laws of different jurisdictions apply, may differ from outcomes described in this website.
Solicitor-client relationship
Communications sent via this website, or by email to Mallesons, does not create a solicitor–client relationship. You should not send us any confidential or sensitive information through this website or by email. Any such communications will not be confidential or privileged unless and until we have agreed to act as your legal counsel and you have executed a written engagement agreement with us. Where Mallesons declines to act for you, we will delete any information received from you and we will not be restricted from acting for a client whose interests may be adverse to yours.
Copyright and trade marks
Unless otherwise indicated and subject to applicable law, all rights (including copyright) in the content and design of this website are reserved. All such copyright is owned by Mallesons in Australia or Singapore or is used under licence or applicable law. Copyright material on the website may be used only as set out in this Legal Notices and Terms of Use section. "Mallesons" is a registered trade mark and may not be used without our prior consent.
Links to or from other sites
Links to other sites from the pages on this website are for information only. In providing a link we do not endorse, and accept no responsibility for any material on, any website that is linked from, or that links to this website. Such sites may be controlled or produced by third parties. You must make your own decision to use such websites and to accept their terms of use and privacy and other policies.
You must not create or maintain any link from another website to this website without our written consent.
Exclusion of our liability
Save to the extent that any liability cannot be excluded or limited under applicable law (including liability for death or personal injury, or for fraud or reckless disregard of professional obligations), all liability of the Mallesons member firms, and their affiliates, partners, other lawyers and employees, to you or any other person for loss or damage of any kind (however caused, including by negligence) arising from or relating in any way to any material and/or any use of the website, or the availability of the website or any content, is excluded.
The Internet is not a secure medium and communications to and from this website may be intercepted or altered in transit. We do not warrant that the website is free from anything which may damage any computer or other device which accesses the website or any data on such computer or other device.
Contact us
This website is provided by Mallesons, an Australian partnership with its registered address at Level 61, Governor Phillip Tower, 1 Farrer Place, Sydney NSW 2000, Australia.
Please contact your usual Mallesons contact or use the contact details associated with the webpage(s) which prompts you to make such contact.
Click here for more information about fraudulent communications purporting to be from Mallesons.
Terms of use in other countries and regions
Australia
We practise law in Australia through Mallesons with offices in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Perth and Canberra.
The legal profession in Australia is regulated under various state and territory laws. Australian lawyers of Mallesons are regulated by the legal profession legislation in the state or territory in which they are admitted to practise law.
In Australia the Privacy Officer can be contacted at Mallesons, Level 61, Governor Phillip Tower, 1 Farrer Place, Sydney NSW 2000, Australia, or on +61 2 9296 2000, for email please click here.
Singapore
Our practice in Singapore is operated by Mallesons LLP, which is registered with limited liability in Singapore (UEN T15LL0218A). Its registered office and principal place of business is at 8 Marina View, #36-01, Asia Square Tower 1, Singapore. References to Mallesons LLP on this page are to that limited liability partnership registered in Singapore (and not to other entities in other jurisdictions having the same or a similar name).
Mallesons LLP in Singapore is a “Licensed Foreign Law Practice” which means that it can only practise foreign law and not Singapore law.
The Singapore data protection officer is able to answer on behalf of Mallesons LLP an individual’s questions about its collection, use or disclosure of personal data; the Singapore data protection officer can be contacted at Mallesons LLP, 8 Marina View, #36-01, Asia Square Tower 1, Singapore or on +65 6653 6500.
Any references to Singapore law on this website or in our publications are for general information only and do not constitute legal advice or represent that we are entitled to advise on Singapore law. If you require advice on Singapore law, we would be pleased to arrange this for you from a Singapore qualified law firm.