Most Recent
Mercedes-Benz can’t access chats with Labor senator in $650M dealer suit
Mercedes can't access communications between Australia's peak body for car dealers and a Labor senator to use in its defence of a $650 million lawsuit over its decision to move to a fixed-price agency model.
Samsung Bioepis sues Fresenius Kabi over patent for generic Humira
Samsung Bioepis Australia has sued fellow biotechnology company Fresenius Kabi over a biosimilar of top selling immunosuppressant drug Humira, saying the invention ‘does not achieve the promise’ of a better formulation using fewer ingredients.
Dye & Durham offers to shed Aussie business in $2.9B bid for Link Group
Canada-based software company Dye & Durham has offered to divest its Australian business to win the ACCC's blessing for its proposed $2.9 billion acquisition of technology services provider Link Group.
Mercedes bullied car dealers, called them ‘baby piglets’, court told
Officials at the Mercedes-Benz Australia head office referred to car dealers as “baby piglets” in internal communications and threatened and bullied the retailers, a trial court has been told in a $650 million lawsuit over the car maker's decision to move to a fixed-price agency model.
Judge blasts ‘horrendously inefficient’ fight in developer’s lawsuit against Zurich
A judge has given a “judicial harrumph” to Sydney developer FKP Commercial Developments and Irish insurer Zurich Insurance in a dispute over coverage for an apartment defects suit, saying it was not for the court to “trawl” through an insurance policy to work out its meaning. 
Telstra to shut down sites amid ACCC concerns about Optus 5G rollout
Telstra has agreed to deregister 162 radiocommunications sites after the ACCC expressed concerns the acquisition could stymie competition by hampering the rollout of Optus' 5G network.
Lawyer sues over articles on dropped David Jones fraud charges
A Sydney lawyer has sued the owners of three websites which allegedly published defamatory articles accusing her of trying to defraud $16,000 from David Jones, claiming her employment prospects have been damaged.
Mazda’s conduct not just ‘appalling customer service’ but unconscionable, ACCC says
A judge was wrong to find that Mazda's treatment of customers with faulty vehicles was appalling but not unconscionable, and nowhere in his ruling is there an explanation for the distinction, the consumer regulator has told an appeals court.
ASIC won’t enforce $7.2M penalty against Dixon Advisory
The Australian Securities and Investments Commission will not seek to enforce a $7.2 million penalty agreed to by Dixon Advisory after admitting to the regulator’s allegations that it failed to act in its clients' best interests.
IAG hit with shareholder class action over COVID-19 risk disclosures
Insurance Australia Group faces a class action by shareholders over its disclosures connected to the impact of COVID-19 claims by policyholders.