Class actions coming to Queensland Courts
Queensland’s Attorney-General, Yvette D’Ath, has today announced that the government will proceed with long-awaited class action reforms.
5 August 2016
Queensland’s Attorney-General, Yvette D’Ath, has today announced that the government will proceed with long-awaited class action reforms.
The Federal Court has found that foreign corporations can be found to have engaged in misleading or deceptive conduct when supplying goods or services to Australian consumers.
Small businesses, and those that deal with them, will soon have to review all of their standard commercial arrangements to ensure their terms are not unfair.
The Full Court of the Federal Court has upheld an appeal by Flight Centre against findings that it attempted to induce price fixing arrangements, and ordered that the penalty of $11 million be set aside.
The Full Court of the Federal Court has delivered another twist in one of Australia’s largest class actions, overturning the decision of the primary judge that some of ANZ’s bank fees were void for being penalties.
The Corporations Act 2001 (Cth) imposes a liability on financial advisers who engage in misleading and deceptive conduct to compensate a person who suffers loss by that conduct.
On 31 March 2015, the Australian Government released the final report of the Competition Policy Review.
The Full Court of the Federal Court recently upheld the validity of compulsory examination notices issued by the ACCC to Paul and Moses Obeid, sons of former NSW government minister Edward Obeid.
The ACCC has taken action after completing an investigation into Kia Motors’ capped price servicing advertisements.
This case, which was heard before Judge Barker of the Federal Court, was a consideration of the appropriate penalty to be granted.
The Privacy Commissioner has recently found Cupid Media Pty Ltd (Cupid) in breach of the National Privacy Principals for failing to take reasonable steps to adhere to data security standards on its internet dating sites
The Commonwealth Government has recently released a consultation paper dealing with whether the unfair contract term protections offered to consumers under the Australian Consumer Law (ACL), should be extended to small business contracts.