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Qantas’ $60M acquisition of Alliance Airlines shares on ACCC’s radar
Competition & Consumer Protection 2019-08-01 3:53 pm By Amelia Birnie

Australian airline giant Qantas says it has no plans to decrease its 19.9 per cent stake in Alliance Airlines, after the competition watchdog expressed preliminary concerns the deal could substantially lessen competition.

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Regeneron loses opposition to Kymab’s patent for human rats
Ben Fitzpatrick 2019-08-01 2:30 pm By Miklos Bolza

US biotechnology firm Regeneron Pharmaceuticals has lost its opposition to a proposed patent by UK biopharmaceutical company Kymab for a method of producing an animal with part-human DNA.

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Super funds could pay dearly for employer gifts, ASIC warns
ASIC 2019-07-31 10:12 pm By Christine Caulfield

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has warned superannuation funds they face criminal penalties if they try to win over employers with tickets to sporting events or other gifts.

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ASIC ‘plucking numbers out of the air’ in penalty hearing for Vocation execs, court told
Alec Leopold 2019-07-31 8:15 pm By Amelia Birnie

Lawyers for former Vocation CEO Mark Hutchinson say the corporate regulator is “plucking numbers out of the air” in its bid to secure disqualifications of up to eight years against the former executives who breached their directors’ duties in relation to the collapsed education provider.

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Moreton wins appeal over R&D tax credits for failed coal gasification project
Appeals 2019-07-31 3:39 pm By Miklos Bolza

Australian coal miner Moreton Resources has won a Full Federal Court appeal over tax offsets it claims are owed over a failed pilot project testing underground coal gasification, a process which was ultimately banned in Queensland.

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Judge rejects ‘arguably excessive’ funder’s commission in KPMG class action
Class Actions 2019-07-31 11:52 am By Miklos Bolza

A judge has rejected a proposed common fund order in the settled KPMG class action, saying the funder’s commission was “arguably excessive” and could result in a “stratospheric” return to the firm.

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‘Guinea pig’ judge pushes off Country Care cartel trial to next year
Alice Muhlebach 2019-07-30 9:34 pm By Miklos Bolza

A six-week trial set to start in October in the cartel case against mobility equipment provider Country Care Group has been vacated and rescheduled to next year, as the judge overseeing the case quipped that he was either the “canary or the guinea pig” in the landmark criminal proceeding.

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RMBL exec told class members he hoped they would opt out of case, court told
Bernard Quinn 2019-07-30 7:39 pm By Amelia Birnie

Customers of mortgage lending and investment firm RMBL say they were “shocked” when the company’s chief financial officer allegedly called them to say “he hoped” they would opt out of an excessive fees class action that had been filed against the firm.

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Icon sues insurers for $11M in coverage for Opal Tower saga
Barry Nilsson Lawyers 2019-07-30 7:16 pm By Miklos Bolza

Construction group Icon Co has dragged insurers Liberty Mutual Insurance and QBE Underwriting to court for allegedly refusing to provide coverage after the Opal Tower disaster in December last year, which led to thousands of residents being evacuated.

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Government to introduce ban on grandfathered commissions
Class Actions 2019-07-30 7:13 pm By Miklos Bolza

The Federal Government will introduce legislation Thursday that would ban the grandfathering of conflicted remuneration for financial advisors, after the banking royal commission suggested scrapping the practice.

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