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Enforcement and Remedies in Real Property Law

ENFORCEMENT AND REMEDIES Chapter 1 -- Introduction s 15 Contraventions of this Schedule Conduct is not taken, for the purposes of this Schedule, to contravene a provision of this Schedule merely because of the application of: (a) section 23(1); or (b) a provision of Division 1 of Part 3-2 (other than section 66(2)); or (c) a provision of Part 3-5. Competition and Consumer Act 2010 s 137B Reduction of the amount of loss or damage if the claimant fails to take reasonable care If: (a) a person (the claimant ) makes a claim under subsection 236(1) of the Australian Consumer Law in relation to economic loss, or damage to property, suffered by the claimant because of the conduct of another person; and (b) the conduct contravened section 18 of the Australian Consumer Law; and (c) the claimant suffered the loss or damage as result: (i) partly of the claimant's failure to take reasonable care; and (ii) partly of the conduct of the other person; and (d) the other person did not intend to cause the loss or damage and did not fraudulently cause the loss or damage; the amount of the loss or damage that the claimant may recover under subsection 236(1) of the Australian Consumer Law is to be reduced to the extent to which a court thinks just and equitable having regard to the claimant's share in the responsibility for the loss or damage. 1 Schedule 2 The Australian Consumer Law Chapter 5 Enforcement and remedies Part 5-2 Remedies Division 2 -- Injunctions s 232 Injunctions (1) A court may grant an injunction, in such terms as the court considers appropriate, if the court is satisfied that a person has engaged, or is proposing to engage, in conduct that constitutes or would constitute: (a) a contravention of a provision of Chapter 2, 3 or 4; or (b) attempting to contravene such a provision; or c) aiding, abetting, counselling or procuring a person to contravene such a provision; or (d) inducing, or attempting to induce, whether by threats, promises or otherwise, a person to contravene such a provision; or (e) being in any way, directly or indirectly, knowingly concerned in, or party to, the contravention by a person of such a provision; or (f) conspiring with others to contravene such a provision. (2) The court may grant the injunction on application by the regulator or any other person. (3) Subsection (1) applies in relation to conduct constituted by applying or relying on, or purporting to apply or rely on, a term of a contract that has been declared under section 250 to be an unfair term as if the conduct were a contravention of a provision of Chapter 2. (4) The power of the court to grant an injunction under subsection (1) restraining a person from engaging in conduct may be exercised: (a) whether or not it appears to the court that the person intends to engage again, or to continue to engage, in conduct of a kind referred