The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission has put the brakes on a cooperation agreement between Virgin Australia and Alliance Airlines for fly-in fly-out customers, citing concerns about increased prices and reduced services.Ā
Australian supplement manufacturer and retailer Universal Pharmaceuticals has admitted that it likely misled customers about the origin of shark products used in a supplement sold on its
Wealthy Heath website.
Online florist Bloomex will admit to the Australian Australian Competition and Consumer Commission’s allegations that it violated consumer laws by posting misleading customer ratings on its website.
A Melbourne investor who posted in an online forum that a pump and dump scheme was all part of the āfun and games and cat and mouse of the stock marketā has been sentenced to two and half years imprisonment for market manipulation.
Discount pharmacy Priceline has finally won its bid to trade mark its signature pink colour, a year after its application was rebuffed by IP Australia.
Wealth management firm Ord Minnett has paid an $888,000 penalty for twice breaching market integrity rules in executing a share buy-back with “pre-arranged” trades.
A shareholder class action against software company Nuix will go ahead as planned, after a stay application threatened to put the proceeding on ice pending the outcome of a separate case brought by ASIC.
The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has gone after a superannuation fund over a Facebook post that allegedly overstated the fund’s positive environmental impact.
MLC has agreed to cop a $10 million penalty for admitted breaches of the Corporations Act in an ASIC case that alleged the insurer failed to promptly update medical terms in policies and withheld payment of a life insurance benefit.
The daughter of a former ATO boss has been sentenced to eight years imprisonment over her role in an $105 million tax fraud involving payroll services company Plutus Payroll, with a judge finding she showed āno contritionā for her conduct.