Magic Circle firm Clifford Chance will represent Rio Tinto as it faces legal action in Australia over allegedly misleading investors about the coal reserves of a Mozambique mining company it acquired for $4 billion in 2011.
Internet providers iiNet Limited and Internode Pty Ltd have agreed to compensate customers for promising NBN speeds that they couldn’t deliver, the fifth undertaking the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission has won from companies for making misleading NBN claims.
Whether Google is liable as a publisher for defamatory content that pops up in search engine results is the question before the High Court on Tuesday, and the answer could drastically alter the way large Internet companies do business.
Australia’s securities regulator will soon have a new mandate – overseeing competition in the financial sector.
The Full Court has allowed Yazaki Corporation to file additional documents as it weighs the ACCC’s case that the auto parts maker got off easy when the federal court slapped it with a $9.5 million penalty in May for engaging in cartel conduct.
Telstra and Vodafone have reached a mid-trial deal to end an infringement case alleging use of GPS technology by the telcos to track customer phones violates a 1994 patent.
A group of Linfox workers in Victoria has lost a challenge to a Fair Work Commission ruling that found in favor of the transport giant in a dispute over the scope of their jobs.
The first stage of the Australian trial alleging Volkswagen installed dual-mode software in diesel vehicles to cheat on emissions tests will wrap up Monday, when class action lawyers deliver a final rebuttal and closing arguments.
The Fair Work Commission has refused a bid by an employer group to halt the merger of the Construction, Forestry, Mining and Energy Union and two other unions while a challenge is heard.
Biogen said Thursday it will pull its multiple sclerosis drug Zinbryta in Australia, nearly two weeks after the biotech company issued a worldwide withdrawal of the drug following reports of encephalitus in Europe.