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Comic contracts and other ways to make the law understandable

  • Written by Camilla Baasch Andersen, Professor in International Commercial Law, University of Western Australia
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Suncorp and Alliance are refunding more than A$60 million to over 110,000 consumers after selling insurance that the corporate regulator ASIC said was “of little to no value”.

This is just the latest example of how the language and design of contracts make it impossible to understand the terms of our everyday...

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