diff --git a/content/blog/blog-bite-what-are-the-reasons-that-australias-consumer-law-trumps-the-choice-of-law-clause/index.md b/content/blog/blog-bite-what-are-the-reasons-that-australias-consumer-law-trumps-the-choice-of-law-clause/index.md index e875f6d60..f68f3352f 100644 --- a/content/blog/blog-bite-what-are-the-reasons-that-australias-consumer-law-trumps-the-choice-of-law-clause/index.md +++ b/content/blog/blog-bite-what-are-the-reasons-that-australias-consumer-law-trumps-the-choice-of-law-clause/index.md @@ -3,9 +3,11 @@ title: "Blog Bite: What are the reasons that Australia's Consumer Law trumps the author: alina@clausehound.com tags: ["Governing Law","Mondaq","Learn","Australia"] date: 2016-06-06 00:00:00 -description: "This article posted on our partner site Mondaq.com discusses this recent Federal Court of Australia decision in which an American refund policy violated Australian consumer legislation. The court fou..." +description: "This article posted on our partner site Mondaq.com discusses this recent Federal Court of Australia decision in which an American refund policy violated Australian consumer legislation." --- -[This article posted on our partner site Mondaq.com](http://www.mondaq.com/australia/x/497678/Arbitration+Dispute+Resolution/Australian+Consumer+Law+trumps+Choice+of+Law+clause) discusses this recent Federal Court of Australia decision in which an American refund policy violated Australian consumer legislation. The court found that the statutory guarantees continued to the apply to the supply provisions under the contract and the statute makes a contract void to the extent it attempts to modify or exclude a remedy. Resultantly, the Australia consumer guarantees apply to goods that are supplied to Australian consumers and cannot contract out of those guarantees even through choosing a foreign law. +[Australia: Australian Consumer Law trumps Choice of Law clause](http://www.mondaq.com/australia/x/497678/Arbitration+Dispute+Resolution/Australian+Consumer+Law+trumps+Choice+of+Law+clause) discusses this recent Federal Court of Australia decision in which an American refund policy violated Australian consumer legislation. -This comes to you as a part of Clausehound's exciting new collaboration with Mondaq! \ No newline at end of file +The court found that the statutory guarantees continued to the apply to the supply provisions under the contract and the statute makes a contract void to the extent it attempts to modify or exclude a remedy. Resultantly, the Australia consumer guarantees apply to goods that are supplied to Australian consumers and cannot contract out of those guarantees even through choosing a foreign law. + +Certain articles within this post were linked and referenced with the permission of Mondaq.com, through our exciting content collaboration with them. To access Mondaq’s large database of articles written by top law firm lawyers from around the world, you must leave our site and create a free account on theirs.