Alice Muhlebach

Coles can't file more expert evidence in its fight over the ACCC's rejection of its purchase of a leasehold interest in a Kalgoorlie site, with a tribunal finding the supermarket had a chance to respond to the ACCC's "novel" harm theory.

Coles can't file more expert evidence in its fight over the ACCC's rejection of its purchase of a leasehold interest in a Kalgoorlie site, with a tribunal finding the supermarket had a chance to respond to the ACCC's "novel" harm theory.

Coles says it should be allowed to file further expert evidence in its stoush with the ACCC over plans to build a supermarket in Kalgoorlie, WA, claiming the regulator failed to give it notice about its "novel" theory of harm.

Coles wants to file further expert evidence in its dispute with the ACCC over the acquisiton of land in Kalgoorlie, WA, claiming it had no notice of the regulator's "novel" theory of harm.

A court has slapped private health insurer Bupa with a $35 million penalty after it admitted to misleading thousands of customers about their benefits for over five years.

Award-wining architecture firm Ashton Raggatt McDougall and its former boss have agreed to pay a combined $975,000 in penalties for attempting to rig bids on a $250 million building project at Charles Darwin University.

The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission has lost its challenge to a decision that tossed its case alleging NSW Ports stymied competition when it signed a 50-year agreement with the state to privatise two ports. 

An appeals court grilled counsel for the ACCC on the first day of a hearing challenging the dismissal of its case over a NSW government deal to privatise two ports, calling on the lawyer to spell out how the state was alleged to be in competition with the consortium that took over the ports.

The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission has appealed a judge's decision throwing out its competition case over an agreement for the privatisation of two NSW ports, calling the case "a matter of significance for the Australian economy".

The ACCC's claim that NSW Ports stymied competition when it signed a 50-year agreement with the state to be compensated if the Port of Newcastle built a container terminal was based on "mere speculative hopes", a judge found in tossing the competition watchdog's regulatory action.