[Section 51AC of the Trade Practices Act 1974 (Cth) was introduced in 1998 to protect small business from unconscionable conduct. This initiative was taken following a number of government reports that highlighted the exploitation some small businesses suffer at the hands of larger businesses. This article argues that legislative intervention in this context is justified and that the mechanism ...

This research is motivated by the critical problem of stark incompatibility between the contractual clauses (typically buried in legal documents) and the myriad of performance measures used to evaluate and reward (or penalize) supply participants in the extended enterprise. This difference between what is contractually expected and what is actually performed in addition to the lack of transpare...

This paper concentrates on the representation of the legal relations that obtain between parties once they have entered a contractual agreement and their evolution as the agreement progresses through time. Contracts are regarded as process and they are analysed in terms of the obligations that are active at various points during their life span. An informal notation is introduced that summarize...

. Business Process Models are typically used to express inter or intra – enterprise business activities/processes. Contractual obligations need to be fulfilled through execution of business processes on behalf of the contracting parties . To do so, business contract terms and conditions need to be semantically integrated to existing internal business process models. Contract obligation, perform...

In this position paper we discuss the issue of enforcing access policies in distributed environments where there is no central system designer/administrator, and consequently no guarantee that policies will be properly implemented by all components of the system. We argue that existing access control models, which are based on the concepts of permission and prohibition, need to be extended with...

Identifying the essential characteristics that distinguish a profession from other service occupations is a common exercise. Perhaps a better way to judge the degree of professionalism, however, is with reference to the ease or difficulty of precisely specifying a provider's performance obligations in advance of the provision of services. For most medical services, the range of possible exigenc...

The real seat is a recognised, although expressed in different terms, connecting factor of the EU international private law, relating to companies they legal relations. Under regulations unifying particular areas this relevant form point view cross-border operations companies, determining applicable law field contractual and non-contractual obligations, company’s bankruptcy. Furthermore, it der...

The authors argue that the Digital Rights Management (DRM) provisions of Bill C-61– Canada's latest attempt at implementing its obligations under the WIPO Copyright Treaty and the WIPO Performances and Phonograms Treaty, inter alia – is ultra vires of Parliament's enumerated powers, and unconstitutionally intrudes into the Provincial legislative sphere. The DRM provisions of Bill C-61 represent...