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‘Embarrassing in the true sense’: Westpac class action faces strike-out bids
Class Actions 2024-03-25 3:12 pm By Sam Matthews

Westpac subsidiary BT Funds Management and Tal Life Insurance have foreshadowed applications to strike out the pleadings of a class action alleging superannuation customers were overcharged for insurance coverage. 

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Judge rejects ASIC’s first case over unfair insurance contract terms
Insurance 2024-03-22 4:18 pm By Sam Matthews

A judge has dismissed the corporate regulator’s first-ever case over unfair insurance contracts terms, finding it was not unfair for an insurer to require customers to notify it if anything changed about their home or its contents.

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Google slams ‘opportunistic’ app store class actions
Trials 2024-03-21 3:48 pm By Cindy Cameronne

Google has criticised two competition class actions which piggyback on claims brought by Fornite developer Epic Games as “opportunistic”, but counsel for the class actions told a court the suits on behalf of more than 15 million group members were in the public interest.

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Judge worries Apple misused court submissions to ‘pressure’ Epic Games overseas
Trials 2024-03-20 9:30 pm By Cindy Cameronne

A judge overseeing a landmark competition case against Apple and Google has questioned whether Apple’s US lawyers wrongly used court submissions in Australia to put pressure on Epic Games in Europe and justify temporarily removing its developer account. 

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Google offered Epic Games $200M to avoid competition with Play Store, court told
Neil Young 2024-03-20 9:58 pm By Cindy Cameronne

Google offered Fortnite creator Epic Games $200 million and proposed to acquire equity in the company to prevent it from opening its own app store with exclusive content that could compete with the search giant’s Play Store, a court has heard.

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Google chokes Play Store competition with technical restraints, Fortnite maker tells court
Trials 2024-03-19 11:22 pm By Cindy Cameronne

Google is nearing “monopoly levels” with its exploitation of the Android brand to prevent other app stores from competing with its Play Store, the maker of the Fortnite video game has said in a landmark competition trial.

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King & Wood Mallesons settles negligence lawsuit by Halifax
Professional Negligence 2024-03-19 11:13 pm By Cat Fredenburgh

King & Wood Mallesons has settled a lawsuit by defunct stockbroker Halifax Investment Services alleging the firm and former auditor Bentleys failed to advise that it had to hold client funds used to trade on its online platform on trust.

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Apple CEO called App Store an ‘economic miracle’, court hears in Epic Games trial
Trials 2024-03-18 11:54 pm By Cindy Cameronne

Apple has made exceptional profits skimming a 30 per cent commission from sales on its app store, dubbed by the tech giant’s CEO an “economic miracle”, Epic Games has said on the first day of trial in a landmark competition case.

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Carriage fight on the cards as third IC Markets class action filed
Class Actions 2024-03-18 3:39 pm By Sam Matthews

A third law firm has filed a class action against International Capital Markets, after failing to reach an agreement on joining forces with two other firms that have agreed to consolidate their competing class actions against the Sydney broker over risky contracts for difference.

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Epic Games trial could shake up how Google, Apple run app stores
Trials 2024-03-15 10:23 pm By Cindy Cameronne

An Australian court will get a chance to weigh in on whether Apple and Google violated their dominant position in the app marketplace by requiring developers to use their payment systems or face a 30 per cent fee, when trial kicks off Monday in Fortnite game maker Epic Games’ case and two related class actions against the tech giants.

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