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Mitsubishi loses appeal, court finds Triton fuel economy label misleading
Competition & Consumer Protection 2022-08-05 2:37 pm By Cindy Cameronne

Mitsubishi Motors has lost its legal challenge to a decision that found it made misleading fuel efficiency representations on a label affixed to the windshield of a Triton 4WD sold in 2017.

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Mercedes-Benz can’t access chats with Labor senator in $650M dealer suit
Competition & Consumer Protection 2022-08-04 11:29 pm By Cindy Cameronne

Mercedes can’t access communications between Australia’s peak body for car dealers and a Labor senator to use in its defence of a $650 million lawsuit over its decision to move to a fixed-price agency model.

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Dye & Durham offers to shed Aussie business in $2.9B bid for Link Group
Corporate 2022-08-04 1:58 pm By Cat Fredenburgh

Canada-based software company Dye & Durham has offered to divest its Australian business to win the ACCC’s blessing for its proposed $2.9 billion acquisition of technology services provider Link Group.

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Mercedes bullied car dealers, called them ‘baby piglets’, court told
Trials 2022-08-03 11:40 pm By Cindy Cameronne

Officials at the Mercedes-Benz Australia head office referred to car dealers as “baby piglets” in internal communications and threatened and bullied the retailers, a trial court has been told in a $650 million lawsuit over the car maker’s decision to move to a fixed-price agency model.

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Telstra to shut down sites amid ACCC concerns about Optus 5G rollout
Competition & Consumer Protection 2022-08-03 11:11 pm By Cat Fredenburgh

Telstra has agreed to deregister 162 radiocommunications sites after the ACCC expressed concerns the acquisition could stymie competition by hampering the rollout of Optus’ 5G network.

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‘No brainer’ that Arrium was failing when directors drew down funds, court told
Restructuring & Insolvency 2022-08-02 11:09 pm By Cindy Cameronne

Several lenders have appealed a ruling that found they failed to prove steel giant Arrium falsified representations on loan drawdown notices ahead of its $2.8 billion collapse, saying it was a “no brainer” that the company was in dire straits when its directors sought extra funds.

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Mazda’s conduct not just ‘appalling customer service’ but unconscionable, ACCC says
Competition & Consumer Protection 2022-08-02 11:37 pm By Christine Caulfield

A judge was wrong to find that Mazda’s treatment of customers with faulty vehicles was appalling but not unconscionable, and nowhere in his ruling is there an explanation for the distinction, the consumer regulator has told an appeals court.

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ASIC won’t enforce $7.2M penalty against Dixon Advisory
Financial Services 2022-08-02 11:49 pm By Sam Matthews

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission will not seek to enforce a $7.2 million penalty agreed to by Dixon Advisory after admitting to the regulator’s allegations that it failed to act in its clients’ best interests.

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Slater & Gordon wins beauty parade, group costs order in Beach Energy class action
Class Actions 2022-08-01 2:28 pm By Cindy Cameronne

Slater & Gordon has defeated Shine Lawyers in a contest to run a shareholder class action against Beach Energy, with a judge finding Shine’s tiered contingency fee arrangement was “mere window dressing”.

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Drug companies drop bid for ACCC approval of Revlimid patent settlement
Competition & Consumer Protection 2022-07-29 11:44 am By Cat Fredenburgh

Bristol-Myers Squibb unit Celgene and two generic drug makers have withdrawn an application for ACCC approval of a patent settlement that would have allowed for an early launch of a generic version of blockbuster cancer drug Revlimid.

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