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Epic Games trial could shake up how Google, Apple run app stores
An Australian court will get a chance to weigh in on whether Apple and Google violated their dominant position in the app marketplace by requiring developers to use their payment systems or face a 30 per cent fee, when trial kicks off Monday in Fortnite game maker Epic Games' case and two related class actions against the tech giants.
App store class actions funder can view ‘sensitive’ Apple data
Apple has failed to prevent a funder from accessing data that will allow it to estimate potential damages in a class action it's bankrolling over allegedly anti-competitive app store restrictions.
Google, Apple to argue app store restrictions needed to protect security, IP
Google and Apple will argue at an upcoming trial that allegedly anti-competitive app marketplace restrictions were necessary to protect security and intellectual property.
BlueScope appeals ACCC win in case over attempted price fixing
BlueScope Steel is challenging a ruling that it pay a record $57.5 million penalty for engaging in attempted price fixing with flat steel distributors.
High Court to hear appeal of ACCC’s unconscionable conduct win against college
The High Court has granted defunct online educator Captain Cook College special leave to appeal a finding that it engaged in systemic unconscionable conduct by enrolling thousands of unsuitable students, who accrued $60 million in debt but never finished their courses. 
BlueScope hit with record $57.5M penalty for attempted price-fixing
A judge has hit BlueScope Steel with a $57.5 million penalty for engaging in attempted cartel conduct and ordered a former executive to personally pay a $575,000 penalty.
ACCC wins bid-rigging case over tender for National Gallery work
Industrial technology company Delta Building Automation has been found liable for attempting to rig a bid for work on the National Gallery of Australia, in a win for the competition regulator.
ACCC says it’s too late for regrets in BlueScope price-fixing case
BlueScope Steel spent $27 million defending the ACCC's claims that it engaged in serious cartel conduct in relation to the supply of flat steel products in Australia, and its apologies came too late to warrant a penalty discount, a court has heard.
College’s enrolment practices should be ‘condemned’, Full Court says in ACCC win
The Full Federal Court has upheld a finding that online educator Captain Cook College engaged in systemic unconscionable conduct by enrolling thousands of unsuitable students, who accrued $60 million in debt but never finished their courses. 
HWL Ebsworth found negligent in $130M case over property development
HWL Ebsworth has been found negligent in advising on a joint venture contract for an ambitious Sydney-based land development, which allegedly lost the law firm’s former client $130 million.