Terms and Conditions Lawyers (Australia)

Not always, and we will tell you honestly. A lawyer-drafted template such as our Website Legal Package at $199 covers most straightforward online businesses. You need a terms and conditions lawyer when your situation is unusual: deposits, subscriptions, business-to-business supply, licensing, regulated industries, or a dispute that has already happened. A 30-minute call is $99 _{^{+ GST}}, and it is the cheapest way to find out which one you are.

Our fixed fees are published: $99 for a 30-minute call, $199 for the Website Legal Package, and custom drafting from $295. A traditional firm bills terms and conditions at $400-$600 per hour with no cap, which routinely lands between $1,500 and $3,000. You know our full price before you say yes.

Yes, provided they are properly presented and properly agreed to. Australian courts look at whether the customer had a real opportunity to read them and take a clear step to accept. That means:

• Terms shown before purchase, not buried in a footer afterwards
• An active step to agree, such as an unticked checkbox at checkout
• A dated record of which version the customer accepted
• No term that breaches the Australian Consumer Law, which is void regardless of agreement
• No unfair contract term in a standard form consumer or small business contract

Getting the wording right matters, but getting the agreement mechanism right is what makes it enforceable.

Yes, and no law stops you. The risk isn’t that your terms are invalid; it is that they are silent on what eventually goes wrong. Terms written without legal training routinely miss:

• Refund and cancellation rights that comply with consumer guarantees
• Limitation of liability that is actually enforceable
• What happens to deposits when a customer cancels
• Who owns the intellectual property you deliver
• Suspension for non-payment and interest on overdue amounts
• Dispute resolution, termination and force majeure clauses
• Governing law when you sell across borders

No. Copying another business’s terms is copyright infringement, and it is also bad practice: their terms describe their business model, their refund policy and their risks, not yours. We see copied terms that reference products the business does not sell and jurisdictions it does not operate in. If cost is the concern, a $199 lawyer-drafted template is the honest answer, not a copy.

In Australian practice, the terms are used loosely and mostly mean the same thing. By convention, terms and conditions or terms of service govern a website, an app or an online purchase, while terms of trade govern ongoing supply between businesses and usually carry credit, delivery and payment terms. What the document is called matters far less than whether it covers your actual risks and whether your customer agreed to it.

One of our senior Australian lawyers who specialises in commercial and online business law. A named, Australian-qualified, regulated person signs off on your document and is accountable for it. No juniors, no outsourcing, and no AI drafting your terms.

Custom drafting is delivered in 5 business days for standard documents, and 5-7 for complex ones, with your fixed-fee quote back within 24 hours. The Website Legal Package template is an instant download. You then have ten business days to ask follow-up questions.

Yes. If you already have terms, we review and redraft rather than start again, which is usually cheaper. Quoted upfront as a fixed fee. If your terms came from a template generator or an AI tool, that review is worth doing before a customer tests them, not after. To get a quote, contact us, and we will price it upfront.

Book a 30-minute call for $99 and tell us the issue when you book, so we can prepare beforehand. You will leave the call knowing whether you need a $199 template, a redraft of what you have, or a document written from scratch, and with a fixed-fee quote for whichever it is. If you already know you need drafting, use the contact form for a quote within 24 hours instead.