Treasury has commenced a public consultation on reform of the Australian Consumer Law to address unfair trading practices.

ACCC Chair, Rod Sims, has just delivered his annual address to the Law Council of Australia Business Law Section’s Competition and Consumer Workshop.

The ACCC has instituted Federal Court proceedings alleging Google LLC and Google Australia Pty Ltd misled consumers about the collection and use of personal location data.

The 10th Annual Baxt lecturer was held on Tuesday 15 October 2019

The keynote speaker was Prof Christopher Yoo, speaking on ‘Competition Law and “Big Data”: what Does it Mean for Data to Be “Big”?’ This was followed by a panel discussion on the consumer data right.