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BlueScope Steel general manager Jason Ellis wanted no record kept of a meeting with four of the company's competing steel distributors and warned his national sales manager to keep the talks under wraps, a court hearing the ACCC's price-fixing case was told on Thursday.
A judge has ordered the ACCC to pay the State of NSW's costs in its failed proceeding against NSW Ports, finding that even though the consumer watchdog did not initially sue the state government that it was a "necessary and proper" party to the case.
Tens of thousands of hospital patients were put at risk when Medtronic unlawfully supplied a bone grafting kit to hospitals that was not registered on the Australian Register of Therapeutic Goods, according to new regulatory proceedings.
BlueScope has labelled "delusional" an argument by the competition regulator that alleged correspondence from a distributor about the steel company’s suggested higher prices was evidence of price-fixing.
Steel maker Bluescope’s claim that it didn't engage in cartel conduct because it only encouraged distributors to set a price for its products would "eviscerate" cartel laws, the ACCC has told a court.
The Commissioner of Patents has appealed a landmark judgment that found artificial intelligence can be named an inventor on a patent application.
National Australia Bank has been hit with a $18.5 million fine after admitting to allegations by ASIC that it failed to adequately disclose its adviser fees for five years.
The Commonwealth is currently facing 83 negligence lawsuits in the Federal Court by asylum seekers who claim the government knew they were vulnerable to physical and psychological injuries and other illnesses, which could be exacerbated by detention in prison-like facilities.
With mediation failing to resolve an expansive class action against the federal government over its use of allegedly toxic firefighting foam, a judge has charted a plan to avoid a "Brobdingnagian" trial and efficiently determine the claims of group members around eight military bases across Australia.
Auctus Resources will not be able to hang on to a $2.3 million R&D tax offset refund which the Full Court found was paid by mistake, after the High Court turned down its special leave application.