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EnergyAustralia has reached a settlement with advocacy group Parents for Climate in a suit accusing it of falsely promoting its carbon offset products as carbon neutral.
The competition regulator will not oppose waste management company Cleanaway's $110 million acquisition of Citywide Waste, saying the tie-up was unlikely to substantially lessen competition for waste services in Melbourne.
The Victorian Supreme Court has found it can rule on a competition claim by the owner of a lot in the Merrifield Business Park masterplanned community over a restrictive covenant preventing it from leasing the land.
Two soon-to-be consolidated class actions against Harvey Norman are fighting the retailer’s bid to appoint a costs referee, saying this was unnecessary given their plan to secure a group costs order.
In the ACCC’s price-fixing case, infrastructure services company Ventia has joined with Spotless in arguing the companies were not in competition, and says it was the Department of Defence that arranged for the providers to talk.
A court has approved a $64 million settlement in a consumer class action against the NAB units MLC Trustees and NULIS Nominees, with 69 per cent of the settlement sum to go to group members.
The High Court has rejected a special leave application by wealth guru Dominque Grubisa seeking to overturn a finding that she had actual knowledge that statements made by her company DG Institute to students who enrolled in her courses were misleading.
A $59 million settlement has been reached in a long-running class action accusing five major banks of foreign exchange rate-rigging.
Downer EDI subsidiary Spotless has rejected allegations it engaged in price-fixing with Ventia on defence contracts, saying the facilities services companies were not in competition with each other.
Hungry Jack's has paid over $150,000 in penalties for allegedly breaking the Australian Consumer Law by failing to comply with button battery standards with its 'burping Garfield' kids meal toy.