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A judge has again voiced doubts about the ACCC's misleading conduct case over Woolworths' 'Prices Dropped' campaign, probing counsel for the regulator at length on Thursday about how the claims stack up.
Was inflation at work, or deception, when Woolworths' advertised the Oreo Family Pack as a 'Prices Dropped' special of $4.50 in December 2022, when the biscuits had been selling for $3.50 just three weeks earlier?
A Woolworths manager has admitted he wouldn't have been content to sell Nestle's Ceralac at the advertised 'before' price of $6.50 in the absence of the product's listing on the supermarket chain's Prices Dropped program.
A Woolworths executive facing cross-examination in the ACCC's case over alleged illusory discounts has denied that price increases were anything other than a reaction to inflation and a “tsunami” of supplier cost increase requests.
Hearing the ACCC's opening remarks in its case against Woolworths over 'illusory' discounts, a judge has questioned if consumers would have descended into the level of analysis suggested by the regulator when shopping.
The Commonwealth has hit back at a class action’s appeal over the government's 2011 live exports ban, denying that it lied to an Indonesian minister about the ban.
A class action over the government’s live exports ban is appealing a finding that no additional cattle would have been exported to Indonesia absent the prohibition, saying the judge failed to fully appreciate the “unheralded” ban.
Deloitte has warned that publishing evidence filed in support of its successful bid for an increase in settlement administration costs in a stolen wages class action could have a “chilling effect”.
A judge has approved an increase in the costs of distributing a $180 million settlement in a stolen wages class action but has said more "frankness" is needed in competitive tenders for the administration gig.
Imposing a duty of care on the Australian government to protect Torres Strait Islanders from climate change would not involve the Federal Court in matters of political judgment, a failed class action has argued on appeal.