VW rightly hit with $125M fine after ‘starving’ judge of evidence, court told
ACCC 2020-08-12 9:50 pm Sydney
An appeals court has been urged to uphold a judge’s $125 million penalty against Volkswagen in the ACCC’s case over the car maker’s emissions cheating, with a court-appointed contradictor saying the judge was “starved” of the information he required to assess whether a $75 million agreement brokered by the consumer watchdog was reasonable.