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Hold music company made it hard for customers to hang up, ACCC says
ACCC 2021-11-11 5:16 pm By Bianca Hrovat Sydney

One of the world’s leading audio branding companies has agreed to amend its contract terms, which penalised customers for cancelling within a 42-day period of their contract ending, following an investigation by the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission.

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Judge ‘gags’ at ACCC’s proposed $5M penalty in Google ads case against Employsure
ACCC 2021-11-10 2:46 pm By Bianca Hrovat Sydney

A judge said he “gagged” at the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission’s proposed $5 million pecuniary penalty in its case against specialist workplace relations company Employsure over six misleading Google ads.

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Top JPMorgan execs to face stand before trial after late ACCC disclosure
Ann Bonnor 2021-11-10 2:07 pm By Christine Caulfield Melbourne

JPMorgan bigwigs who are key witnesses for the prosecution in its cartel case over ANZ’s botched share placement in 2015 will be questioned by Citibank and Deutsche ahead of trial.

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Court blocks short seller from releasing Vulcan Energy report
Bennett + Co 2021-11-09 4:42 pm By Cat Fredenburgh Melbourne

Lithium producer Vulcan Energy has won a court injunction blocking Beijing-based short seller J Capital from releasing a critical report on the Perth-based company for one week.

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ACCC’s witness statement method ‘quite unfair’, says judge hearing cartel case
ACCC 2021-11-05 9:45 pm By Christine Caulfield Melbourne

The ACCC’s practice of successively refining witness statements without saving draft versions was “quite unfair”, says a judge overseeing the competition regulator’s criminal cartel case over a botched ANZ share placement.

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ACCC let JPMorgan lawyers review witness statement in cartel probe, court told
Ann Bonnor 2021-11-04 10:42 pm By Christine Caulfield Melbourne

Lawyers for JPMorgan went to the ACCC’s office to review a draft statement of the investment bank’s then managing director Jeffrey Herbert-Smith, an immunity witness for the competition regulator in its troubled criminal cartel case over an ANZ share placement, a court has heard.

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Epic’s evidence in clash with Apple could be first in competition case
Apple 2021-11-04 1:19 pm By Bianca Hrovat Sydney

Epic Game’s plan to lead econometric evidence in its dispute with Apple could be the first time such evidence has been led in a competition case in Australia, a judge has said, as he warned that the companies’ “unlimited resources and enthusiasm for victory” should not bog the case down.

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Groupwide damages not ruled out in Ford class action, judge says
Allens 2021-11-03 9:56 pm By Christine Caulfield Melbourne

A judge has left open the possibility that aggregate damages could be awarded in a class action against US auto giant Ford on behalf of 185,000 vehicle owners over their defective cars.

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Class action accuses Dixon Advisory of providing conflicted financial advice
Class Actions 2021-11-03 9:49 pm By Bianca Hrovat Sydney

Financial services company Dixon Advisory has been hit with a class action for allegedly pushing financial products onto investors that it stood to reap hundreds of millions of dollars in fees from and failing to disclose its alleged conflict of interest.

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JPMorgan GC sat in on ACCC interviews despite involvement in alleged cartel, court hears
ACCC 2021-11-03 9:23 pm By Miklos Bolza Sydney

JPMorgan’s general counsel for Australia and New Zealand was allowed to sit in on witness interviews during an ACCC cartel investigation into ANZ’s $2.5 billion share placement despite allegedly being involved in the cartel conduct, a judge has heard.

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