A key issue in the ACCC’s price-fixing case against Downer EDI’s Spotless and Ventia is likely to focus on whether the facilities services companies were in competition, a court has heard.
Trial in the ACCC’s misuse of market power case against Mastercard has been pushed to 2026, after the US company failed to comply with discovery orders.
A judge has imposed penalties against Star’s former managing director and former CFO as part of settlements reached with the corporate regulator, as trial against nine other executives continues.
Law firms running competing class actions against Coles and Woolworths over alleged illusory discounts have agreed to join forces, but a judge has warned he will not simply “rubber stamp” the arrangement.
A judge has hit AustralianSuper with a $27 million penalty for breaching superannuation rules requiring providers to consolidate customer accounts.
A court has found that Telstra misled almost 9,000 residential broadband customers about the upload speeds of its budget internet provider Belong.
It has been a quiet time for the competition regulator under the stewardship of Gina Cass-Gottlieb, but on Thursday the enforcer urged companies and consumers to watch this space.
An appeals court has found that an unpaid present entitlement to a corporate beneficiary is not a loan under tax law, upending the ATO’s longstanding practice of treating UPEs as part of a trustee’s assessable income.
Former ASIC chairJames Shipton wants to strike out claims brought against him by Clive Palmer, arguing the mining billionaire’s pleading cannot support a claim for misfeasance in public office.
Four directors of coal producer TerraCom have flagged they will not show their hand in the corporate regulator’s first-ever case alleging breaches of whistleblower protections.