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PayPal’s 60-day complaint deadline in small biz contracts unfair, judge says
The corporate regulator has secrued orders barring fintech giant PayPal from enforcing a term in its contracts with small businesses that set a two-month deadline for complaints about excess fees.
Mired in interlocutory skirmishes, protracted BHP class action just got more entangled
BHP wants to appeal a decision giving a class action the OK to fix what a judge accepted was an "inadvertent mistake" that resulted in a ruling -- itself the subject of an appeal -- which limited the group member definition.
ANZ says bailout by underwriters of $2.5B share placement not relevant to ASX
Challenging a ruling that it breached its continuous disclosure obligations, ANZ has argued on appeal that it did not need to inform the ASX of a bailout by the underwriters of a 2015 institutional share placement because the information didn’t go to the fundamental value of its shares.
BHP fights class action’s bid to augment group after pleading mistake
A five-year-old class action against BHP over the collapse of a Brazilian dam is seeking to amend the group definition following a judgment limiting the class size, but the mining company says it should not be punished for the applicant’s pleading mistake.
SingTel loses appeal in ATO case over deductions on $14B Optus acquisition
Telecommunications giant SingTel has lost its challenge a ruling in favour of the ATO’s decision to reject over $894,000 in tax deductions related to its $14.2 billion acquisition of Optus.
Judge makes no bones about trashing ‘Melbourne bone and joint clinic’ trade mark
A Melbourne orthopaedic clinic has lost its bid to register the name ‘Melbourne Bone and Joint Clinic’ as a trade mark, with a judge finding the phrase was just an ordinary combination of words. 
PepsiCo appeals loss in case over royalty withholding tax
US drink giant PepsiCo has lodged an appeal of a court win for the Australian Taxation Office over payments made by Schweppes under a distribution agreement that were found to be subject to royalty withholding tax.
Honda cops $6M penalty for misleading customers about dealerships
Honda Australia has been hit with a $6 million penalty for misleading communications made to customers of three dealerships during a restructuring in which the car maker's shuttered its independent dealer network in favour of an agency model.
ANZ appeals disclosure breach finding over $2.5B share placement
ANZ will appeal a ruling that it breached its continuous disclosure obligations when it failed to inform the ASX of a bailout by the underwriters of a 2015 institutional share placement.
ANZ hit with $900,000 penalty for share placement disclosure failures
ANZ's failure to disclose a bailout by banks underwriting a $2.5 billion share placement has resulted in a penalty of less than $1 million, ending an eight-year saga that included an aborted criminal trial.