Hotel booking aggregator Trivago has lost its challenge to a court ruling that it misled consumers over its ranking of travel accommodation, in what the consumer regulator hailed as a win for consumers and a warning to comparison sites.
Facing an ASIC enforcement action over alleged breaches of Australian credit laws, payday lenders BHF Solutions and Cigno claim they did not need a licence to issue loans to hundreds of thousands of consumers.
The Federal Government has committed $147 million to develop a new watchdog tasked with investigating criminal conduct in the public sector, giving the agency more power than a Royal Commission.
Viagogo has appealed a $7 million penalty handed down after a judge found the ticket reseller had misled consumers into thinking it was an official vendor and failed to disclose booking fees of around 28 per cent.
Australia’s largest library has entered into a “stringent” enforceable undertaking with the Fair Work Ombudsman after underpaying more than 100 employees to the tune of $250,000 in wages and super.
Funeral insurer ACBF Funeral Plans and parent company Youpla Group are facing legal action from the corporate regulator alleging they breached financial service laws by making false claims in a funeral insurance policy sold primarily to Aboriginal consumers.
The Attorney-General’s office has begun its review into whether the Privacy Act is fit for the digital age, including whether the law should be changed to allow consumers to bring lawsuits, including class actions, for privacy breaches.
A former general manager of Sigma Healthcare is facing up to twenty years in prison after being charged with two counts of insider trading.
The ACCC has lodged an appeal after a judge threw out its case against Employsure alleging the specialist workplace relations consultancy duped small businesses into signing long-term contracts via several Google ads that promised free workplace advice which appeared to be government-affiliated.
A judge has set aside the pleadings in ASIC’s case accusing a Worrells liquidator of aiding and abetting the illegal phoenix activity of collapsed Queensland property investment advisor Members Alliance Group, saying he is entitled to a “coherent pleading”.