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Garuda hit with $19M penalty for air cargo price-fixing
Indonesian national airline Garuda has been slapped with a $19 million penalty in the ACCC's decade-long global cartel case over air cargo price-fixing, bringing the total penalties won by the competition regulator over the cartel to $132.5 million.
AMP faces class actions over allegedly excessive superannuation fees
AMP has been hit with a class action alleging it breached its duty of care to superannuation members by charging them unreasonably high fees, and a second class action is expected within weeks.
Maurice Blackburn launches cartel class action against investment banks
Maurice Blackburn has launched a rare competition class action against five global investment banks over a conspiracy to manipulate foreign exchange rates that has spawned class actions and lawsuits by regulators across the globe.
ACCC sues Sony over allegedly misleading PlayStation claims
The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission has dragged video game giant Sony to court over allegedly deceptive and misleading claims made about games purchased on the PlayStation Network.
Competition heavyweights to represent Vodafone, TPG in landmark merger challenge
Elite competition groups Allens  and Herbert Smith Freehills will represent Vodafone and TPG in their lawsuit filed Friday challenging the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission's opposition to their proposed $15 billion tie-up.
RMBL ordered to retract comments ‘encouraging’ class members to opt-out
Mortgage lending and investment firm RMBL Investments has been ordered to  withdraw all communications with its customers that encouraged them to opt-out of a consumer protection class action against the firm.
ACCC loses ‘spoke and hub’ laundry cartel case
The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission has come up short in its appeal of a ruling that found it had produced insufficient evidence of a laundry detergent cartel, in the first so-called hub and spoke case brought by the competition regulator.
ACCC takes online retailer Kogan to court for misleading promotion
The consumer watchdog has brought legal action against online retailer Kogan Australia alleging one of its discount promotions duped customers.
VW dieselgate hearings postponed over ACCC objections
A hearing scheduled for later this year in several class actions and an ACCC proceeding over allegations Volkswagen installed dual-mode software in diesel vehicles to cheat on emissions tests has been postponed, despite cries of prejudice from the consumer regulator.
Geelong sues fundraising firm claiming affiliation with the Cats
The Geelong Football Club has launched Federal Court proceedings against a promotional firm it claims passed itself off as the famous AFL club in order to procure payments from members.