The ACCC has suffered a stinging defeat in its criminal cartel action against mobility equipment provider Country Care, its CEO and a former employee, with a jury handing down not guilty verdicts on all eight charges in the case.
Telecommunications companies Dodo and iPrimus must pay $2.5 million in penalties for making misleading claims about their NBN broadband speeds, a court has ruled.
JPMorgan is fighting to keep details of failed settlement talks with ASIC under wraps in criminal cartel proceedings over a $2.5 billion ANZ share placement, as ANZ seeks to uncover whether the corporate regulator made a deal with the investment bank ahead of the cartel case being filed.
Maurice Blackburn has lost its bid for indemnity costs after defeating a consumer and intellectual property lawsuit brought against it by US financial services giant State Street Global Advisors for displaying a replica of the famous Fearless Girl statue.
Freedom Foods’ dispute with Blue Diamond Growers over an almond licensing deal will be heard by an arbitrator in California after an appeals court rejected the company’s plea for an Australian judge to determine the case.
An appeals court has upheld a ruling which bars use of the RestQ trade mark on sleep products sold by Martin & Pleasance because of a “disturbing” number of similarities with the marketing and appearance of an established competitor’s Rescue natural sleep aid product.
Dairy co-operative Fonterra has lost a bid to keep the company’s name out of the domain of a website to be set up for a class action brought by farmers alleging they were unlawfully underpaid when Fonterra slashed milk prices and sought a “clawback” in 2016.
Mosaic Brands has paid $630,000 in penalties after being hit with infringement notices by the ACCC for misleading claims made about hand sanitiser and masks sold on its websites at the height of COVID-19 pandemic last year.
A judge has slammed the “highly improper” conduct of lawyers in a judgment ordering US rapper The Game and his manager to pay over $553,000 to an Australian music promotion company over a cancelled tour in 2017.
At least 60 class actions were filed in Australian courts from July 1 last year to April 30, marking a record for new group cases in a financial year with two months to go, according to a preliminary report by King & Wood Mallesons’ disputes resolution team.