RA-AUS renewal now with lots of Membership Terms and Conditions

[JabiruWeekendWarrior]

Today i am paying for renewing my Ra-Aus certificate and RA-AUS has really got the lawyers all out when drafting the renewal now with lots of Membership Terms and Conditions.. pages and pages of terms to agree to now.. 

[Methusala]

I renewed over the phone and they only wanted the [exorbitant] $335. 

No questions just give us your money.

[sfGnome]

They sent out a message a little while back that phone renewals won’t be available in future (as of some date that I don’t recall) as you have to agree in writing to the new document. They’re basically trying to stop people doing stupid things (ref the Mt Beauty crash) and then blaming RAAus for it. I haven’t seen the document yet, but the concept seems reasonable enough. 

[BurnieM]

These sort of terms and conditions may not have much legal standing if you cannot renew without agreeing to them.

Having to renew for your RPC to remain valid would also work against RAAus in court.

 

Their main purpose is to try to frighten family members off making a claim/sueing them. However, if a death occurs I doubt it will stop anybody.

 

Probably was driven by Mt Beauty but I doubt it will help RAAus in a similar future event.

Plenty of blame to go around all parties at Mt Beauty.

 

Edited March 28 by BurnieM

[pluessy]

The way I interpreted this garble (lawyer double-dutch) is that no matter how bad a RA-Aus employee stuffs up, it is someone else's fault?! Correct???

[BRL]

Must be taking a leaf from the Albo book🤗

[facthunter]

 What Rubbish, BRL . Nev

[BRL]

in what way ?

[turboplanner]

8 hours ago, pluessy said:

The way I interpreted this garble (lawyer double-dutch) is that no matter how bad a RA-Aus employee stuffs up, it is someone else's fault?! Correct???

Not correct; you need to talk to a public liability lawyer, but to give you a rough idea, read up on Donoghue v, Stevenson, then spend a little bit of money getting advice from a Public Liability lawyer.

[facthunter]

Think about it BRL.  Nev

[pluessy]

3 hours ago, turboplanner said:

Not correct; you need to talk to a public liability lawyer, but to give you a rough idea, read up on Donoghue v, Stevenson, then spend a little bit of money getting advice from a Public Liability lawyer.

So every RA-Aus member needs to engage a lawyer to be able to understand what they force us to sign???