Clayton Utz

Epic Games has told a judge that Apple is treating Australian competition laws with “arrogant disrespect” and urged him to order injunctions after he found the tech giant engaged in anti-competitive conduct in the app marketplace.

In a landmark recent decision, the Federal Court has confirmed that getting credits wrong or trying to contract your way out of giving them carries serious legal and commercial consequences, says Clayton Utz head of digital and intellectual property Timothy Webb and lawyer Chelsea Manansala.

Apple and Epic Games are back in court for a high-stakes fight over the orders a judge should make following his finding that the company engaged in anti-competitive conduct in the app marketplace. 

A judge has imposed a $1.55 million penalty on car finance lender Money3 in ASIC's action alleging breaches of responsible lending obligations, criticising the regulator again for its "sprawling" case. 

A2 Milk has won a long-running lawsuit alleging Care A2 Plus infringed its trade marks, with a judge finding the infringement was flagrant and rejecting arguments that 'a2' is descriptive of a type of milk that only contains the A2 protein.

The ACCC has won court approval to make submissions on relief in Fortnite game maker Epic Games' case against Apple, after a judge found the tech company misused its market power in the app marketplace.

HSBC won't defend ASIC proceedings alleging it failed to protect customers from scams that resulted in $23 million in customer losses.

Coal producer Glencore has lost the latest round in a long-running dispute with Port of Newcastle over access charges.

Glencore has failed on appeal in a case against Port of Newcastle, with an appeals court finding the coal company could not rely on submissions in litigation leading up to a final determination of the port's access charges.

Australia's richest person Gina Rinehart could be on the hook for millions of dollars in royalty payments, in a long-running battle over lucrative iron ore mining tenements in Western Australia's Pilbara region.