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A judge has hit mattress retailer Emma Sleep with an $18 million penalty after it admitted to repeatedly misleading consumers about discounts, saying the ACCC's proposed $36 million was not needed to achieve deterrence, noting there was no financial loss to consumers.

Sportsbet has argued that the lead plaintiff in a class action over alleged unlawful in-play betting services should hand over communications he had with his solicitor before he signed a retainer. 

Trial begins Tuesday in the consumer regulator's case against Woolworths over alleged dodgy discounts, with the supermarket chain set to argue there was nothing phony about its 'Prices Dropped' campaign.

The Victorian Supreme Court has rejected a bid by gold sellers Sun Capital Investments and Australian Gold Capital to stop Westpac from closing its bank accounts, finding there was no serious question to be tried.

Australia's richest person Gina Rinehart could be on the hook for millions of dollars in royalty payments, in a long-running battle over lucrative iron ore mining tenements in Western Australia's Pilbara region.

Before the decision in the Brambles case this week -- the first shareholder class action to succeed at trial -- the path to proving loss from disclosure breaches was a thicket of, well, brambles. Now after six consecutive losses, Justice Bernard Murphy has paved the way for plaintiffs to prevail.

In the first shareholder class action to succeed at trial in Australia, a judge has found logistics chain company Brambles breached its continuous disclosure obligations in relation to an overly rosy 2017 financial forecast amid problems with its North American pallets business.

A hearing set for this week on relief sought by Fortnite maker Epic Games in its competition case against Google will not go ahead as planned, after the companies reached a global settlement. But the terms of the deal remain to be approved by the ACCC.

A former RAMS franchisee has raised concerns about a joint trial of its case with a related class action against the defunct Westpac home loan subsidiary, saying the overlap between the cases may be “much less than advertised”.

Trial in a case by the Wilderness Society challenging Santos' plans for its Reindeer gas field kicked off Tuesday, with counsel for the activist group saying the energy giant needed to show it coud cover decommissioning costs.