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GetSwift boss accused by co-founder of misleading him on sale of shares
Competition & Consumer Protection 2022-08-09 11:35 pm By Christine Caulfield

GetSwift managing director and founder Joel Macdonald faces a lawsuit by former Melbourne Demons teammate James Strauss, who helped launch the strife-ridden logistics tech company seven years ago.

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3A Composites wins push for detailed claims in cladding class action
Class Actions 2022-08-09 1:34 pm By Cindy Cameronne Sydney

A judge has ordered that the lead applicant in a class action against German cladding manufacturer 3A Composites give further details on how its allegedly combustible cladding caused losses for property owners.

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‘Tear it up’: Judge censures silk in $650M Mercedes-Benz dealer lawsuit
Automotive 2022-08-08 11:31 pm By Cindy Cameronne Sydney

A court has directed a senior barrister acting in a $650 million lawsuit against Mercedes-Benz to “tear up” a letter his instructing solicitors sent concerning the judge’s ownership of a Mercedes vehicle, and said he was “surprised” the counsel signed off on it.

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Mitsubishi loses appeal, court finds Triton fuel economy label misleading
Appeals 2022-08-05 2:37 pm By Cindy Cameronne Sydney

Mitsubishi Motors has lost its legal challenge to a decision that found it made misleading fuel efficiency representations on a label affixed to the windshield of a Triton 4WD sold in 2017.

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Mercedes-Benz can’t access chats with Labor senator in $650M dealer suit
Automotive 2022-08-04 11:29 pm By Cindy Cameronne Sydney

Mercedes can’t access communications between Australia’s peak body for car dealers and a Labor senator to use in its defence of a $650 million lawsuit over its decision to move to a fixed-price agency model.

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Dye & Durham offers to shed Aussie business in $2.9B bid for Link Group
ACCC 2022-08-04 1:58 pm By Cat Fredenburgh

Canada-based software company Dye & Durham has offered to divest its Australian business to win the ACCC’s blessing for its proposed $2.9 billion acquisition of technology services provider Link Group.

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Mercedes bullied car dealers, called them ‘baby piglets’, court told
Automotive 2022-08-03 11:40 pm By Cindy Cameronne Sydney

Officials at the Mercedes-Benz Australia head office referred to car dealers as “baby piglets” in internal communications and threatened and bullied the retailers, a trial court has been told in a $650 million lawsuit over the car maker’s decision to move to a fixed-price agency model.

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Telstra to shut down sites amid ACCC concerns about Optus 5G rollout
ACCC 2022-08-03 11:11 pm By Cat Fredenburgh

Telstra has agreed to deregister 162 radiocommunications sites after the ACCC expressed concerns the acquisition could stymie competition by hampering the rollout of Optus’ 5G network.

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ASIC won’t enforce $7.2M penalty against Dixon Advisory
ASIC 2022-08-02 11:49 pm By Sam Matthews Melbourne

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission will not seek to enforce a $7.2 million penalty agreed to by Dixon Advisory after admitting to the regulator’s allegations that it failed to act in its clients’ best interests.

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Mazda’s conduct not just ‘appalling customer service’ but unconscionable, ACCC says
Anna Garsia 2022-08-02 11:37 pm By Christine Caulfield

A judge was wrong to find that Mazda’s treatment of customers with faulty vehicles was appalling but not unconscionable, and nowhere in his ruling is there an explanation for the distinction, the consumer regulator has told an appeals court.

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