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A class action against Johnson & Johnson over alleged ineffective cold medicine has attacked the pharmaceutical company’s application for soft class closure, telling a court the process would produce useless data and only need to be repeated.
A judge says a shareholder class action against IAG can add a new damages claim, despite the insurer arguing it was untethered from any contravention and “clearly bad in law”.
Coles and Woolworths could face penalties of more than $10 million under new supermarket price-gouging laws that come into effect next week, and the ACCC says community concerns will guide its enforcement priorities.
Online retailer HSK United has agreed to pay two infringement notices totaling $79,200 after the consumer watchdog alleged its websites Pain Free Aussies and Modern Aussies contained misleading pricing and returns information.
The ACCC has taken a debt collection agency and an associated legal practice to court for sending 320,000 allegedly misleading debt notices, describing the legal practice's alleged conduct as "particularly troubling".
US-based keg pooling company Kegstar has offered the ACCC a court-enforceable undertaking under which it would not enforce exclusivity provisions in its contracts for three years, in a bid to secure approval for its proposed acquisition of the assets of rival Konvoy.
Google has hit back at a class action alleging it abused its dominance in the digital advertising market, saying that publishers are able to, and often do, develop their own ad tech tools or rely on competing third-party solutions.
Advice platform JustAnswer has agreed to a $10 million penalty in the consumer’s watchdog’s case accusing the company of duping customers into signing up for expensive monthly subscriptions.
The ACCC has dragged weight loss company Miyagi and its boss, Shane Da Costa, to court alleging they breached consumer laws by including unfair contract terms and false and misleading representations.
A judge has sounded the alarm bell about regulators launching appeals to re-litigate enforcement proceedings, in a recent decision tossing the corporate cop's appeal in a case against insurer HCF Life.