David Holmes

Australia’s exposure draft unfair trading laws propose a new prohibition, subscription rules and drip pricing reforms. Read more at Gilbert + Tobin.

Key Takeaways: Qantas has admitted that it misled consumers through advertising and offering for sale tickets that it had already decided to cancel.The ACCC and Qantas have agreed to a penalty of $100 million for Qantas’ breaches…

Last week, the ACCC confirmed its renewed focus on consumer guarantees and protecting consumers in ecommerce with the announcement of its 2024-25 enforcement and compliance priorities.

Since our last enforcement wrap-up, the ACCC has kept busy on the consumer law front, issuing infringement notices, accepting court enforceable undertakings and instituting proceedings for more serious conduct.  In this bumper edition,…

On 20 February 2024, the Australian Competition Tribunal set aside the determination by the ACCC dated 4 August 2023 in which it denied an application for merger authorisation of Australia and New Zealand Banking Group's proposal to acquire…

It’s been one month since significant changes to the unfair contract terms (UCT) regime came into effect, which made UCTs illegal and subject to significant penalties and vastly expanded the types of small business contracts that are …

On 28 July 2023, the Federal Court of Australia ordered record-breaking penalties totalling $438 million against Phoenix Institute of Australia Pty Ltd (Phoenix) and Community Training Initiatives Pty Ltd (CTI) (both subject to Deeds of Com…

Welcome to the very first edition of Shop Talk - a new quarterly wrap up of key legal developments in the Australian retail and consumer sector from Gilbert + Tobin’s market-leading Competition, Consumer + Market Regulation team.…