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Judge dismisses MyBudget consumer class action
Class Actions 2018-09-18 9:59 pm By Miklos Bolza

MyBudget has successfully fought off a class action brought by consumers who claimed the budget management firm violated consumer law by holding onto interest earned on their personal budgeting accounts.

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Europcar admits overcharging customers, blames reservation system
Competition & Consumer Protection 2018-09-18 1:00 pm By Cat Fredenburgh

Europcar has fired back at the consumer watchdog in an enforcement action alleging the car rental company applied excessive payment surcharges on debit and credit card purchases, saying it always intended to refund overcharged customers, and did.

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QRxPharma defendants can access class members’ broker details
Class Actions 2018-09-13 11:49 pm By Miklos Bolza

The defendants in a shareholder class action over QRxPharma’s alleged failure to disclose problems with regulatory approval for its painkiller Moxduo have won access to information on class members’ financial brokers.

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Class action funders’ $92M windfall: the last of the big paydays?
Class Actions 2018-09-10 11:31 pm By Christine Caulfield

The $92 million payout to two funders that financed the recently settled S&P Global class actions shows the need for continued scrutiny of litigation funding agreements, experts say, but whether it is a sign of windfalls to come or is a ghost of commission’s past is another question.

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VisionSearch takes final shot at ObjectiVision’s ‘limited’ case
Intellectual Property 2018-09-06 10:58 pm By Miklos Bolza

ObjectiVision has presented a “limited” and “debatable” case that its source code for a glaucoma testing device was copied, the Federal Court heard Thursday as the trial in a four-year spat with the University of Sydney over IP rights came to a close.

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Aldi offered $150,000 to settle MoroccanOil dispute
Competition & Consumer Protection 2018-09-04 11:34 pm By Cat Fredenburgh

Discount supermarket chain Aldi offered $150,000 to end a lawsuit brought by the maker of the popular MoroccanOil line of hair products, a court judgment revealed Tuesday.

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ObjectiVision wraps up IP trial against University of Sydney
Intellectual Property 2018-09-04 10:25 pm By Miklos Bolza

Ophthalmic diagnostic device manufacturer ObjectiVision has made its final pitch to the Federal Court at the end of trial in a long-running intellectual property and contract dispute with the University of Sydney, saying in closing submissions that the school had run a “curious” case. 

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Unanswered Pinsent Masons emails show retainer was terminated, appeals court says
Contracts 2018-08-31 11:29 pm By Cat Fredenburgh

Spanish construction company Técnicas Reunidas can’t block two Pinsent Masons solicitors, formerly with Norton Rose, from representing Downer EDI Engineering in an ICC arbitration between the two companies, with an appeals court saying unanswered emails provided sufficient proof a retainer had been terminated.

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Criminal cartel cases the tip of the iceberg, lawyers say
Competition & Consumer Protection 2018-08-27 11:01 pm By Cat Fredenburgh

The two criminal cartel cases brought by the ACCC in the past three months are just the beginning, lawyers say, with three or four more criminal matters expected to be brought by the end of the year.

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ACCC hopes laundry cartel case will wash with Full Court
Appeals 2018-08-16 11:44 pm By Cat Fredenburgh

The Full Federal Court will hear arguments next week in an appeal by the ACCC over an alleged laundry detergent cartel, the first so-called hub and spoke case brought by the competition regulator.

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