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Making advertising comply with the Australian Consumer Law: Court finds answers in TPG's fine print

  • Clayton Utz
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  • Australia
  • -
  • April 11 2013

It is the overall impact of an advertisement and not just the dominant message which must be considered when determining if an ordinary consumer

Misleading and deceptive advertising average consumer as test

  • McInnes Wilson Lawyers
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  • Australia
  • -
  • January 24 2011

In the recent case of Singtel Optus Pty Limited v Vodafone Pty Limited, Optus sought an injunction to restrain Vodafone from airing two commercials promoting their 'Infinite' mobile phone plan on the basis that they were misleading and deceptive to the ordinary consumer

Twitter, suppression and the courts

  • Piper Alderman
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  • Australia, United Kingdom
  • -
  • July 22 2011

The rise and rise of social media platform Twitter has had all sorts of impacts on the administration of justice

Movie studios fail in appeal against internet service providers

  • Piper Alderman
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  • Australia
  • -
  • May 10 2012

The High Court has unanimously decided that an internet service provider, iiNet, is not liable for authorising the copyright infringements by its users who downloaded movies on its network

Fibre flip-flop

  • King & Wood Mallesons
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  • Australia
  • -
  • April 10 2013

On 9 April 2013, the Coalition revealed its long-awaited plan to redesign the National Broadband Network (NBN). Unsurprisingly, the policy claims to

Optus liable for misleading advertising

  • Herbert Smith Freehills LLP
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  • Australia
  • -
  • November 5 2010

Singtel Optus has been found liable for 'serious' contraventions of the Trade Practices Act as a result of misleading advertising about its internet plans

Consumer law bares its teeth to the tune of $5.26m

  • Gilbert + Tobin
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  • Australia
  • -
  • July 12 2011

On 7 July 2011, Justice Perram of the Federal Court of Australia ordered Singtel Optus to pay $5.26 million in civil pecuniary penalties for breaches of consumer protection provisions of the Trade Practices Act 1974 (TPA) (equivalent provisions are now found in the Australian Consumer Law which forms a schedule to the Competition and Consumer Act 2010

Telcos put on notice regarding mobile and wireless advertising

  • Baker & McKenzie
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  • Australia
  • -
  • December 15 2009

The Australian Competition & Consumer Commission (ACCC) has issued an information paper containing an "industry checklist" for companies advertising mobile and wireless internet services

Australian Productivity Commission proposes to cut red tape in infrastructure services

  • Baker & McKenzie
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  • Australia
  • -
  • January 25 2010

The Australian Productivity Commission's latest report identifies ways in which to reduce the regulatory burden on businesses in various sectors such as in information, media and telecommunications

Media and communications sector reform means industry leadership critical

  • Clayton Utz
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  • Australia
  • -
  • March 4 2010

The central role of media and communications in Australian society and the economy and the pace of technological change in these sectors means there will be an even greater need in the future for leadership in industry education, regulatory policy debate and legal reform, according to Clayton Utz partner Caroline Lovell

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