Junior lawyer’s ‘genuine mistake’ caused Mastercard to send privileged doc to ACCC, court told

Competition & Consumer Protection 2025-08-15 11:46 pm By Cindy Cameronne | Sydney

Mastercard has argued it should be able to maintain legal professional privilege over a document a junior lawyer “inadvertently” sent to the ACCC in 2020 while the company was trying to dissuade the regulator from continuing its investigation into alleged anti-competitive conduct.