Synergy Law

Supporting Government to become 'future ready', partnering with clients to achieve legally defensible outcomes.
By leaning into complex and challenging issues, we can find options and solutions to support legally defensible outcomes and provide confidence for the commonwealth.

Synergy Law is a Synergy Group integrated legal offering, specialising in Government law and legal advisory services. Synergy Law as a capability, and an added service line, enables Synergy Group to provide clients integrated end to end advisory services and solutions which are legally assured and defensible. Synergy Law also provides Synergy Group the additional capability to look at ways to ‘lean into’ future legal issues such as: cyber security, ICT and infrastructure security, emerging energy resources, climate law, supply chain management, data sharing and information law, to support Government operations becoming ‘future ready’.

Synergy Law not only provides an integrated legal service but added depth of experience through having worked in, and for, Government on complex legal, policy and program matters. We know our market, we know our clients, we understand what you need. We will lean in, work beside you, and help you achieve your outcomes.

Meet the team

From start to finish we listen and seek to understand and deliver impact, together, in partnership.

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With views on what matter and knowledge to share. We pride ourselves in collaborating. Get to know us better.
Insight

The Commonwealth’s Revised Procurement Rules – What does it mean for me?

Rethinking work
Those of us in the procurement and contract management space will be well aware that a new version of the Commonwealth Procurement Rules (CPRs) will take effect from 1 July 2024. Released just over a year after the latest CPR revamp, you might ask – why is another version of the CPRs necessary? The answer can be found in what is currently happening in both the public sector and private industry, along with a focus on protocols to mitigate and control for fraud and corruption.
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Ready Set Go - New IC Review Directions

Rethinking work
If you missed our last update on the Information Commissioner (IC) FOI Review Procedures – too late, they’re now in force! Jokes aside, the IC’s Review Procedures went live on 1 July 2024. Considering that the starting gun’s been fired, it’s going to be ready, set and go for Commonwealth Freedom of Information (FOI) teams to get on board with the IC’s efforts to streamline and speed-up their FOI Review protocols.
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New OAIC Directions signal a new direction in FOI reviews

Beyond compliance
Rethinking work
In May 2024, the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner (OAIC) released new Information Commissioner (IC) Review Procedure Directions aimed at Commonwealth Government agencies. The IC Direction will require agencies to more actively engage with FOI applicants – and prove that they undertook searches for documents. Taking effect in July 2024, the new IC Directions are part of the OAIC’s commitment to ‘delivering a timely IC review process, informed by the principles of informality, responsiveness and proportionality’.
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Are ACCUs one big green Monopoly game?

Rethinking work
The Australian Carbon Credit Unit (ACCU) Scheme is a little bit like the game, Monopoly – and specifically the Go Green edition. How? The ACCUs are the Australian ‘policy version’ of the ‘greening game,’ with financial incentives to buy green technologies and initiatives – and disincentives for polluters, with the goal of cleaning up the planet. With ACCUs, Australian businesses receive credits for projects that reduce or avoid greenhouse gas emissions. This requires projects to meet and follow integrity criteria to ensure that issued ACCUs indeed do avoid or decrease emissions. That’s the official rulebook, but the reality of how the game is played can be a bit different...
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