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The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission is considering whether new laws are needed to rein in Google, Apple and Facebook, including rules to curb self-preferencing conduct and strengthen the merger review framework.
An appeal in a class action over Ford's alleged defective Powershift transmission could blow out by a week, with the applicant filing a cross appeal in a case that comes down to three provisions of the Australian Consumer law given little or no attention by the Full Court.
Former legal representatives of companies in the Mayfair 101 group are considering an application to strike out part of an appeal that alleges their “flagrant incompetence” led to director James Mawhinney copping a 20-year ban on soliciting investor funds.
The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission is weighing court enforceable undertakings proposed by Finnish cargo handling companies Cargotec and Konecranes to alleviate concerns their merger would be anticompetitive.
Scenic Tours is facing a potential second class action over a series of European cruises that went ahead in 2018 despite a record-breaking drought that saw river levels drop so low they became impassable.
A Full Federal Court judge has questioned whether law firm Maurice Blackburn was “savvy” to the origins of New York’s famous Fearless Girl statue when it launched a copycat marketing campaign in Melbourne’s Federation Square.
Law firm Maurice Blackburn deliberately appropriated the iconic Fearless Girl statue in order to promote its own gender equality credentials, the Full Federal Court has heard.
A judge has hit brothers Adam and Charif Kazal with $1.45 million in damages in a defamation lawsuit brought by their former business partner Rodric David and his company, finding the Kazals vilified and denigrated David as part of a 'vendetta'.
The law firm behind a consumer class action against Suncorp subsidiary AAI over add-on car insurance says notices to group members should not be sent until the case is ready for trial and the "information asymmetry" is corrected.
The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has lost an interim injunction bid against the director of investment firm Mayfair 101 in its case seeking a contempt finding, despite arguing there was a substantial risk of harm to consumers.