The judge overseeing a jointly run class action against Google, which has already fended off a third proceeding in a contest to pursue the digital giant, will not keep the case waiting for a looming fourth action.
Harvey Norman says it should be fined no more than $24 million for running misleading ads, urging a court not to punish it for “intemperate” remarks its founder made in the media about the legal system.
ASIC on Thursday pushed for penalties totalling $85 million against Harvey Norman and Latitude Finance, after an appeals court found the retailer’s ads touting interest-free financing were misleading.
Two senior Johns Lyng Group executives have been dragged into a dispute over the $75 million sale of Nike franchisee Retail Prodigy Group.
The Full Federal Court has tossed Latitude Finance and Harvey Norman’s appeal of a ruling that found the retailer’s ads touting ‘interest free’ payment methods were misleading.
An appeals court has dismissed BlueScope Steel’s challenge to a decision finding it engaged in attempted price-fixing and was on the hook for a record $57.5 million penalty.
Piper Alderman is appealing a decision that stayed its competition class action against Google in favour of a competing case, saying group members had been deprived of a “substantially superior” funding model.
A judge will hit pause on two class actions against Coles and Woolworths over allegedly illusory discounts after hearing a bid to bind group members to the findings in related proceedings by the ACCC.
A judge that granted carriage of a Google ad tech class action to Maurice Blackburn and Phi Finney McDonald has reiterated concerns that such cooperative arrangements between firms could breach competition law.
A judge overseeing class actions against Coles and Woolworths over alleged illusory discounts has raised concerns about a bid to bind group members to findings in similar cases by the ACCC.