Terms of use

These terms of use apply to your use of this website, located at the domain name 'jws.com.au'. By using the site, you agree to be bound by these terms of use. We reserve the right to alter these terms of use from time to time, and any amendments will take effect immediately. Your continued use of the site after any such amendment constitutes an agreement by you to be bound by the amended terms of use. A reference in these terms of use to 'we', 'us' or 'our' is a reference to two associated partnerships, namely Johnson Winter Slattery ABN 70 843 523 318 and Johnson Winter Slattery (SA) ABN 48 445 961 217, and their associated entities.

The terms of our Privacy Policy apply to your use of this website, and any content provided to us through our contact form on this website. The Privacy Policy forms part of these terms of use and is incorporated into them by reference. 

Disclaimer

Any material (including publications) provided on the site is for preliminary and general use only. It is not legal advice. You should not rely on it, or make any commercial decision based on it, without first seeking specific legal advice. Your use of this website or any publications or other information on it does not create a solicitor-client relationship between you and us. We endeavour to ensure that all legal material on the site is accurate and up to date at the time of publication. However, we do not warrant the currency or accuracy of any material on the site.

Links to external websites

Links to external websites are provided for convenience only and do not imply our endorsement, approval or recommendation of, nor any relationship to, their owners, operators or content, including any products or services. We have no control over linked external websites and accept no responsibility or liability for them or for any loss or damage that may arise from your use of them, which is subject to the terms contained within such sites, if any. 

Prohibited uses

You may use the site only for lawful purposes and in accordance with these terms. You must not:

  • use the site to impersonate or attempt to impersonate us, any of our employees or contractors, another user or any other person;
  • use the site to engage in any conduct that is detrimental to, or interfere with, another person’s use of the site, or which may harm us or users of the site;
  • use the site in any manner that could damage, impair, disrupt or interfere with, the site; or the servers or networks that host the site;
  • use any robot, spider or other automatic device, process or means to access the site for any purpose, including monitoring or copying any of the content on the site; or
  • (except as set out below in these terms) reproduce, modify, rent, lease, loan, sell, distribute, adapt, translate, create derivative works based (whether in whole or in part) on, reverse engineer, decompile or disassemble all or any part of the site, or any content on the site.

We may report any fraudulent, abusive or illegal activity to the relevant law enforcement authorities and we will cooperate with these authorities by disclosing your identity to them. If you breach the above usage restrictions and/or engage in fraudulent, abusive or illegal activity, we may terminate your access to the site.

Intellectual property

Copyright in the site, including all text, graphics, logos and icons, is owned by or licensed to us. You may print or reproduce pages of the site for non-commercial personal use only, provided that copyright notices are not removed. All other use, reproduction, publication or distribution of the content on our site is not permitted without our prior written consent. You may not place a link to our website, or embed or frame our website content in any other website without our prior written consent.

'Johnson Winter Slattery' and 'JWS' are unregistered trade marks that are proprietary to us. We reserve all rights in relation to them. Other product and company names referred to on the site may be trade marks owned by or business names registered to, third parties.

Exclusion and limitation of liability and warranties

We do not warrant or represent that your access to the site will be uninterrupted or error free or free of other harmful components. We may suspend or withdraw or restrict the availability of all or any part of the site from time to time for any reason. To the maximum extent permitted by law, we exclude all liability to you and any other person for any loss or damage, whether direct or indirect and however caused (including through negligence) that may be suffered as a result of any unavailability of the site, and any use of the site or any material published on it, including but not limited to any interference or damage to that person's computer system which arises as a result of use of the site or a linked website, even if we have been advised of the possibility of such loss or damage. To the maximum extent permitted by law, we exclude any conditions or warranties that would otherwise be implied into these terms of use. Where a condition or warranty cannot by law be excluded, then that condition or warranty will be deemed included in these terms of use, but our liability in respect of any breach of that condition or warranty will be limited to the maximum extent permitted by law.