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.

Just submit an enquiry via this page or click the 'get started' button on our website to submit an enquiry. After you've submitted an enquiry, one of our legal consultants will review your enquiry within 1 business day and get in touch to get a better idea of exactly what you are looking for.

Then your legal consultant will send through an email with a bit more information about the services you need, along with a fixed fee quote setting out costs, scope of the service and timing. Have a read through it, and if you're happy with the scope, you can accept and sign our engagement letter online - easy!

Once you've formally accepted, we'll connect you with a specialist lawyer and they will work with you to complete your project. They will contact you by email or phone if they need to get in touch.

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 operate completely online, which means we can help you wherever you are in New Zealand. We have office spaces in Sydney, and in Melbourne, but our use of technology allows our team members to work remotely from around the world. Our legal team are mostly based in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane and Perth. We also have a London office for Sprintlaw UK.

Our legal team is made up of experienced lawyers, who are specialists in various areas of law and hold an Australian legal practising certificate. None of our Sprintlaw lawyers are New Zealand qualified lawyers and they do not currently hold a New Zealand practising certificate.

They provide legal services working remotely from Australia via our 'legal consultancy' model, through which (under section 6 and section 35 of the New Zealand Lawyers and Conveyancers Act 2006) our Australian legal team are permitted to provide legal services to New Zealand businesses provided they do not provide services in certain 'reserved' areas of law. You can read our FAQ page to learn a bit more about our 'legal consultancy' model.

Given the strong similarities between Australian and New Zealand law, and the areas of law in which we practice (being small business and startup law), we do not view the fact that our lawyers have not qualified in New Zealand as having any substantive impact on the quality of our service. We are committed to ensuring that we provide high quality, affordable legal services to all our New Zealand clients.

Our legal team have all trained at leading firms, but have left the traditional corporate law world to join us on our mission to create a new and better way of delivering legal services. They have specialist expertise in technology law, intellectual property law, contract drafting and review, corporate law and commercial law.