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Trivago taken to court over hotel price ads
Hotel booking site Trivago has been hit with legal action by the consumer regulator alleging the company's price advertisements were misleading.
ACCC greenlights outdoor advertising deals
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.
Rinehart family feud turns on a word, High Court hearsana
The bitter dispute between Gina Rinehart and two of her children over billions of dollars in iron ore mining assets may come down to how the High Court interprets a single word in an arbitration clause of agreements signed by the warring family members.
Ex-mining boss Darren Lind found guilty of insider trading
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.
Securency must pay $64M after ‘shabby fraud’ on businessman
Plastic banknote company Securency has been ordered to pay more than $64 million after it tricked its agent in Nigeria into signing away his commission in what the Federal Court called a "shabby fraud".
Lawyer’s bungled court filing dooms helicopter injury case
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. 
ACCC lost cartel case because Loyal, Cascade were not competitors, judge rules
The two coal companies at the centre of an ACCC case alleging an unlawful agreement to rig the tender process for mining exploration licenses were not competitors, a judge has ruled in dismissing the watchdog's cartel case.
Murray Goulburn faces second class action over profit downgrade
Milk supplier Murray Goulburn has been hit with a second class action over its profit forecast revision in 2016 that wiped 40 percent off the dairy cooperative's investment value.
High Court to hear ASIC appeal in outback book-up case
The corporate watchdog has won special leave to appeal to the High Court a ruling that found a general store owner in outback South Australia who sold cars by "book up" had not acted unconscionably.
Foodora enters administration, leaves landmark cases in limbo
Two weeks after announcing it would pull out of Australia, delivery food company Foodora has gone into administration, putting the brakes on two unfair dismissal cases and a sham contracting action by the Fair Work Ombudsman.