Get your modern slavery statement into a usable legal shape

This service is commonly used by businesses with supply chains that are becoming more complex, businesses responding to customer or investor due diligence requests, and organisations that want a clearer public statement about how they assess labour and sourcing risk. It can also be useful where a business already has a statement, but it reads like generic wording and no longer reflects current operations. In practice, the need often comes from commercial pressure and governance expectations as much as from formal reporting frameworks.

A template may be useful for orientation, but it often misses the operational details that decide whether the wording works for your business. However, it often says very little about how your business actually identifies, escalates and responds to risk. That matters because modern slavery statements are usually read alongside your supplier onboarding, procurement controls, internal reporting lines and public commitments. If the statement overstates what the business does in practice, it can create credibility and legal risk. A more useful statement is one that matches your operations, your supply chain visibility and the steps your team can genuinely support if questioned later.

Yes. The wording matters, but the underlying practices matter just as much. A statement is strongest when it reflects what the business actually does with supplier onboarding, contractual controls, escalation pathways, training and internal reporting. If there is a gap between the statement and the real process, that gap can become the main risk point. Where your business collects, uses and shares information about suppliers, workers or incidents, the right drafting and advice depend on those real practices rather than assumptions copied from another organisation.

That is often a good starting point. We can review your draft, identify where the language is too broad, unclear or unsupported, and rework it so it better matches your current operations and reporting position. This is particularly useful if the draft was prepared internally, adapted from a parent company document, or copied from a public example. The aim is not to make the statement sound more impressive than the facts allow, but to make it more accurate, more defensible and more useful for stakeholders reading it.

After you engage us, we collect the background material relevant to the statement, which may include your existing draft, supplier policies, procurement documents or internal risk notes. A lawyer then reviews that material, discusses the key issues with you, and prepares the statement and related guidance within the agreed scope. If the review shows that further work is needed, such as supplier terms or internal policy updates, we can outline those next steps separately. Regulator expectations and third-party responses can vary, so outcomes are never promised.

Submit an enquiry on this page or click 'Get started'. One of our legal consultants will review it within 1 business day and get in touch to understand what you need.

Your consultant will then email you a fixed-fee quote setting out the cost, scope and timing. If you're happy with it, you can accept the quote and sign our engagement letter online.

Once you've accepted, one of our Australian-qualified lawyers will work with you to complete your project. They'll contact you by email or phone if they need anything.

Sprintlaw works on fixed-fee pricing wherever possible, so you can review the scope and cost before you decide whether to proceed. For the Modern Slavery Statement Pack service, pricing starts from $900.00.

After you enquire, a legal consultant will confirm what is included, the expected timing and whether any extra work is needed before you engage us.

We work online, so we can help wherever you are in New Zealand. Our team works remotely, mainly from Australia.

Your work is done by our Australian-qualified lawyers, who hold Australian practising certificates and specialise in business law. None of them are New Zealand lawyers or hold a New Zealand practising certificate.

Sprintlaw NZ Limited is a legal consultancy, not a law firm, and is not regulated by the New Zealand Law Society. We don't act in court or tribunal matters, conveyancing (including leases and business sales) or other reserved areas of work. Communications with Sprintlaw are unlikely to be protected by legal professional privilege. We still keep everything confidential under our engagement letter.