Andrew Barraclough

CityLink plans to appeal a February decision that found it overcharged Eastlink operator ConnectEast for roaming fees to allow users to use both toll roads on one account.

CityLink operator CML has been overcharging Eastlink operator ConnectEast for ‘roaming fees’ in an arrangement that allows customers to use one account over both toll roads, a court has found.

Hitting back at the regulator's claims of dodgy sales promotions, Coles and Woolworths say price increases were the result of real cost pressures, and subsequent discounts were not illusory.

Coles and Woolworths have hit back at the ACCC's claims they advertised “illusory” discounts, pointing the finger at inflation and higher supply costs.

BlueScope Steel is seeking to overturn a record $57.5 million penalty for engaging in attempted price-fixing with flat steel distributors, telling an appeals court that it was simply trying to make its competitors understand “it was in their interests to price differently”. 

Qantas will pay a $100 million penalty and another $20 million in compensation in a settlement of the ACCC's so-called ghost flights case that includes an admission by the airline that it engaged in misleading and deceptive conduct in selling tickets for cancelled flights.

A judge has ordered soft class closure ahead of mediation in a class action against five major banks over alleged foreign exchange rate-rigging, saying the applicant's subjective view on what will assist mediation should not be imposed on the banks.

Qantas has hit back the ACCC's argument that the airline failed to respond to key allegations in its 'ghost flights' case, telling the court it's the regulator's job to particularise its claims.

The ACCC has raised concerns over Qantas’ alleged failure to respond to claims in a blockbuster case against the airline over the sale of tickets on cancelled flights.

Citibank has argued group members should be asked to sign on to a class action accusing five major banks of entering a cartel agreement to rig foreign exchange rates before evidence is filed in the case, saying it was impossible to know how much the claims were worth.