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ACCC greenlights TransUrban bid for WestConnex stake
Competition & Consumer Protection 2018-08-30 10:55 am By Cat Fredenburgh

The ACCC has approved TransUrban’s bid for a majority stake in the WestConnex highway project, after TransUrban agreed to publish toll data to help bidders compete for toll road concessions. 

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Broadspectrum workers not covered by enterprise agreement for future work, court affirms
Article 2018-08-29 10:57 pm By Cat Fredenburgh

Spanish-controlled services company Broadspectrum has struck out in its appeal of a decision by the Fair Work Commission not to approve an enterprise agreement with four employees slated to work in its new justice business unit.

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ASIC cautions lenders against reverse mortgage ‘box-ticking’
Article 2018-08-28 10:57 pm By Christine Caulfield

The Commonwealth Bank of Australia and other lenders have been warned by the corporate watchdog against a “tick-boxes” approach to reviewing reverse mortgage applications by elderly home owners.

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Criminal cartel cases the tip of the iceberg, lawyers say
Competition & Consumer Protection 2018-08-27 11:01 pm By Cat Fredenburgh

The two criminal cartel cases brought by the ACCC in the past three months are just the beginning, lawyers say, with three or four more criminal matters expected to be brought by the end of the year.

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Judge won’t shut down wrongful death action in US over Qld air crash
Product Liability 2018-08-24 10:20 pm By Christine Caulfield

A judge has refused a bid by two Australian companies to shut down a long-running wrongful death case in the US brought by the families of 15 people killed in an air crash near the Lockhart River in North Queensland in May 2005.

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Trivago taken to court over hotel price ads
Competition & Consumer Protection 2018-08-23 2:14 pm By Christine Caulfield

Hotel booking site Trivago has been hit with legal action by the consumer regulator alleging the company’s price advertisements were misleading.

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ACCC greenlights outdoor advertising deals
Competition & Consumer Protection 2018-08-23 11:47 am By Christine Caulfield

The competition regulator has cleared JCDecaux Australia’s multibillion merger with APN Outdoor Group, while oOh!media’s $570 million tie-up with AdShel has also been given the nod.

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Apple keeps patent application for iPhone, iPad interface alive
Intellectual Property 2018-08-21 10:46 pm By Cat Fredenburgh

A patent application for a computer-implemented invention filed by Apple may have a shot at approval, with a delegate for IP Australia saying strict tests for patentability should be eschewed in favor of a more holistic approach.

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Ex-mining boss Darren Lind found guilty of insider trading
White Collar 2018-08-21 10:05 pm By Christine Caulfield

A jury has found the former managing director of South Australian mining exploration company Golden Fields Resources guilty of two counts of insider trading, the corporate regulator said Tuesday.

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Lawyer’s bungled court filing dooms helicopter injury case
Personal injury 2018-08-21 12:52 pm By Christine Caulfield

A helicopter passenger who suffered serious injuries in an accident near Alice Springs has lost a challenge to the dismissal of his case, with an appeals court ruling a Slater & Gordon lawyer’s defective statement of claim — lodged on the last day of the limitations period — was not accepted by a registry of the Northern Territory Supreme Court. 

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