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‘ASX Wolf’ trader permanently banned from carrying on unlawful financial services business
Gold Coast ‘finfluencer’ Tyson Scholz has been permanently barred from conducting a financial services business without a license, after a court found he provided illegal financial services by giving tips on his Instagram account and to customers who paid for access to his seminars and ‘Black Wolf Pit’ chat room.
Architecture firm to pay $975,000 for attempting to rig bids on $250M university project
Award-wining architecture firm Ashton Raggatt McDougall and its former boss have agreed to pay a combined $975,000 in penalties for attempting to rig bids on a $250 million building project at Charles Darwin University.
Carnival wins strike-out bid in class action over gastro outbreaks
Carnival has won its bid to strike out a class action over norovirus outbreaks on its Sun Princess cruise ship. 
Essure contraceptive ‘safe and efficacious’, Bayer tells class action trial
Bayer told a jury that clinical trials from the 1990’s to 2014 showed its Essure birth control device was “safe and efficacious”, as the pharmaceutical giant faces trial in a class action by patients who claim they suffered debilitating injuries from the device.
ACCC says it’s too late for regrets in BlueScope price-fixing case
BlueScope Steel spent $27 million defending the ACCC's claims that it engaged in serious cartel conduct in relation to the supply of flat steel products in Australia, and its apologies came too late to warrant a penalty discount, a court has heard.
ACCC chair pushes for compulsory merger review regime
The head of the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission has called for reforms to Australia's merger laws that would make review by the regulator compulsory, saying the current  informal review regime hampers its ability to block anti-competitive deals.
Procter & Gamble’s ’30 Minute Miracle’ claims don’t wash, lawsuit says
The maker of Finish dishwashing detergent has taken Procter & Gamble to court, arguing it misled consumers by claiming its Fairy 30 Minute Miracle dish detergent is more effective than the competition.
Mecca’s distribution agreement with lux cosmetics brand not unlawful, court finds
Beauty giant Mecca has succeeded in fending off a luxury cosmetics brand's appeal of a decision that found a term of an exclusive distribution agreement between them was not an unlawful restraint of trade.
App store class action funder can’t see evidence in Epic’s case against Apple
The litigation funder bankrolling two competition class actions against Apple and Google has lost its bid to see evidence filed in a similar case by developer Epic Games, after concerns were raised about its potential use in overseas proceedings against Apple.
College’s enrolment practices should be ‘condemned’, Full Court says in ACCC win
The Full Federal Court has upheld a finding that online educator Captain Cook College engaged in systemic unconscionable conduct by enrolling thousands of unsuitable students, who accrued $60 million in debt but never finished their courses.