Cooper Grace Ward offers customised legal training, programs and systems, designed to protect you, your business, your Board and your senior management. We assist you in putting the right systems in place to comply with legislation including Trade Practices and Competition Law.

Marketing your products and services successfully is critical to your business. Doing so in a manner that does not offend against the Trade Practices Act is equally critical. Those who have experienced a trade practices investigation by the ACCC know how time consuming, disruptive and upsetting it can be – to say nothing of the expense!

The management of such risks faced by your business is best achieved through a culture of compliance, by ensuring that all of your employees who could place the company at risk understand the way that competition law works.

Knowing how the law works, of course, is only the beginning. You need to continuously monitor change in the law and in your business. Regular sign-off on compliance offers protection to the Board and senior management and provides a facility to those involved in marketing activities to officially report problem areas as they arise. This approach provides everyone with protection through accountability.

To assist you in assessing your level of compliance with the Trade Practices Act, Cooper Grace Ward offers a Trade Practices Compliance Kit. The Kit helps you identify just how much risk your organisation is exposed to and where more education and understanding of the Trade Practices Act is required.

It is designed to test your employees’ understanding of the Trade Practices Act and will also enable your senior management to know what is understood about your organisation by those working in it. This includes employees who deal with industry associations, negotiate contracts, prepare marketing or advertising material, engage in selling activities or interface with those who do.

The Trade Practices Compliance Kit features an online, interactive assessment which includes seven ‘real life’ video scenarios covering a range of trade practices issues. After each video segment, the employee is asked to answer a range of questions about whether the scenarios shown break the law and, if so, what is the potential result.

The assessment takes approximately 30 minutes and generates a score for each employee who participates. It also identifies areas of the Act in which the employee’s knowledge or understanding needs strengthening.

Using this information, you can then identify what additional training your employees need to reduce your organisation’s risk exposure. If filed and used as reference documents, the first and all subsequent test reports can track the extent to which particular staff or areas of operation pose unacceptable risks.

Cooper Grace Ward can assist you with all of your follow-up training for your employees, customised to suit their level of understanding in competition law based on their test results.

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