Check out my
ACCC Cheat Sheet for September 2025 in which I discuss the Optus $100 penalty,
the Good Guys settlement, some new enforcement actions, the Cement and IAG RAC
proposed acquisitions and much more.
Run time 24
mins
Check out my ACCC Cheat Sheet for August 2025 in which I
look at the Full Federal Court decisions in BlueScope and Delta and try to make
sense of the outcomes, and discuss the pseudo outcome against Mosaic Brands,
the Google proposed $55m settlement for blocking competing search providers
from Android phone for three years,
Check out my ACCC Cheat Sheet for July 2025 in which I
discuss the Webjet case, ACCC enforcement action in relation to allegedly reef
friendly sunscreen, a number of merger matters, the ghost stores Public Warning
Notices and the cyclone reinsurance pool report.
Runtime 26 mins
ABLR Vol 53, Part 3 is out.This edition features four excellent contributions:* Legal Professional Privilege in a Corporate Crisis – The Optus Data Breach – Michael Legg * Law and Economic Agency of Africans in Australia – Dominic Npoanlari Dagbanja,
Farida Fozdar and David Mickler* Information Disclosure and Insurance – An Evolving Balancing Act –
ABLR Vol 53, Part 2 is out.This edition features three excellent contributions: * Beyond Complexity: Reconstructing Australia’s Financial Services Law – Integrating Regulatory Efficiency and Climate Risk Disclosure – Kevin Liu* Intellectual Property in Times of Crisis: Evidence from Australia’s S&P/ASX 100 Listed Firms – Professor Tony Ciro and Bulend Terzioglu* The Rise
Check out my
recent ACCC Cheat Sheet for June 2025 which covers heaps of ACCC enforcement
actions including the proposed penalties against Optus and Bupa for
unconscionable conduct ($100m and $35m respectively); the case against
Australian Gas Networks for alleged greenwashing; the ACCC’s Product Safety
Priorities and final Digital Platform Services Inquiry Report and much
ABLR Vol 53, Part 1 is out.This edition featured four excellent contributions: * The Registration of Certification Trade Marks in New Zealand and Australia – Bram Van Wiele and Mitchell Adams* Recent PPSA Cases – Anthony Duggan* Australia’s Proposed Digital Competition Regime – Nicholas Felstead* Assessing Culpability for a Continuous Disclosure Breach: ASIC
Check out my
recent ACCC Cheat Sheet for May 2025 in which I discuss the recent Federal
Court decision in Productivity Partners, including the decision to allow Mr
Wills, the personal respondent, to pay his penalty of $400,000 through his
D&O Policy; two NDIS enforcement actions; the introduction of the Toppling
Furniture information standard; various
Check out my ACCC Cheat Sheet for April 2025 which includes a discussion of the High Court decision in Hutchinson, the Clorex Glad Bags Ocean Plastics case and the Qteq attempted cartel case, new actions against City Beach and LDV, the Qube – Mirrat undertaking and the departure of Enforcement Commissioner Liza Carver.Run time 30