Showing articles tagged with 'Small business'
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The Melbourne Magistrates' Court has fined a company and its director a total of $59,000 for misleading consumers into enrolling in training courses that were advertised as job advertisements.
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A tradesman who performed building work while unregistered and harassed a former client has been fined a total of $3000 and ordered to pay $500 in costs.
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The Director of Consumer Affairs Victoria has issued a public warning notice concerning the conduct of ADG Windows Pty Ltd (trading as Australian Double Glazing) and its director, Mr John Heath.
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A Melbourne-based online toy retailer has been banned from taking money up-front from customers until 2020.
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The director of a former Boronia estate agency has been declared ineligible to hold an estate agent’s licence, or be an estate agent’s representative for five years, after he admitted to knowingly authorising and permitting the agency to convert trust money to its own use.
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Former real estate agent Anthony Vito Brancatella has been sentenced to 40 months jail, and must serve a minimum of 20 months, for misappropriating nearly $2 million of clients’ money.
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A Camberwell-based heating and cooling installation company has been restrained from taking money or deposits from customers, following an action Consumer Affairs Victoria brought in response to an increase in complaints.
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The Supreme Court of Victoria has granted an interim injunction against door-to-door carpet cleaner David James Donald, of Reservoir, whose carpet cleaning and repair business practices prompted numerous complaints to Consumer Affairs Victoria.
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Former real estate agent Scott Hoare has been reprimanded and cannot hold an estate agent’s licence or act as an agent’s representative until 12 October 2024, after a hearing at the Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal.
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A Seaford funeral director has been ordered to stop taking pre-paid funeral contracts; pay refunds to clients; and hand over that side of his business to a receiver to manage, following a hearing in the County Court of Victoria.
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