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Former King & Wood Mallesons partner Stephen Ridgeway has been appointed as the new mergers commissioner at the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission.
A judge overseeing competing consumer class actions against AMP over superannuation fees said he would be "reluctant" to hold a contest between the two cases, as the applicants in the rival proceedings tell the court they are in talks about possible consolidation.
The former CEO and director of biotech company Sirtex Medical, Gilman Wong, is facing a maximum ten years in prison after pleading guilty to insider trading.
Country Care Group has criticised the DPP for the "argumentative" tone of the notice setting out its criminal cartel case against the mobility equipment provider, and has secured an order for further clarity from prosecutors.
Bega Cheese is accusing global food giant Mondelez of overstating the value of the Australian assets purchased for $460 million in July 2017 as part of a deal that's also at the centre of an ongoing dispute with Kraft over peanut butter trade dress rights.
The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission has lost its case alleging Kimberly-Clark made misleading representations about its flushable wipes, with a judge finding the consumer regulator failed to provide sufficient evidence to show the wipes caused harm to sewage systems.
A judge has told the lead plaintiff in a class action over allegedly excessive legal fees to get their “house in order”, amid complaints by the Queensland compensation law firm at the centre of the dispute that the litigation is “costing them a fortune”.
The consumer watchdog has issued fresh proceedings against Optus over its National Broadband Network marketing, alleging the telecommunications giant sent a misleading email to consumers just two days after it copped a $1.5 million penalty for similar conduct.
The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission is appealing the dismissal of its case over Pactific National's purchase of Aurizon's Acacia Ridge Terminal in Queensland, challenging the Federal Court's power to accept Pacific National's last-minute promise to ensure access to the major freight terminal by competitors.
Indonesian national airline Garuda is appealing a $19 million price-fixing fine, the second largest penalty in the ACCC's decade-long global cartel case over air cargo price-fixing.