Courts

A civil cartel dispute working its way through the Federal Court has unveiled tensions in an industry supplying technology to Santos and Shell-linked gas projects.

The identity of Bitcoin's creator remains a mystery after a UK court found against an Australian man who had claimed to be behind the cryptocurrency. But does it really matter if Bitcoin's origins are unknown?

The case brought by the makers of Fortnite may well have a bearing on how the government tackles Big Tech's market power in Australia.

A federal court judge has described ASIC's arguments against the index fund giant as "misconceived and completely wrong".

The Albanese government wants to tackle scams with mandatory codes of conduct for banks, telcos and digital platforms. In a new written submission, Meta is calling instead for an industry-led code.

ANZ's win today before the Australian Competition Tribunal looked like a washout for the ACCC in its theories of competitive harm, but in some ways, the regulator couldn't lose.

A string of crypto-linked enforcement cases in Australia are testing the boundaries of financial product definitions and the ability of existing laws to govern digital assets.

The merger law debate has reached a critical stage as government considers recommendations from the Competition Taskforce, and with merger lawyers and the ACCC in stark opposition.

It "operates in the edgier areas of the law" and has been at the forefront of key social debates and media campaigns in recent years. Now Marque Lawyers turning is its attention to the "completely terrifying" capabilities of AI.

Intellectual property lawyers say Australian media companies may be better placed than their US counterparts to succeed in lawsuits over AI - if they decided to go that route.

App developers and consumers suing Apple and Google over allegations of anticompetitive conduct haven't ruled out a settlement eight weeks out from a trial.

Both sides are arguing the other is at risk of breaching consumer laws, which could theoretically expose them to damage claims, or even steep financial penalties.

The oil and gas producer's court win raises the evidentiary bar for cultural heritage cases, but doesn't signal an end to them.

Both the ACCC and ASIC are poised to seize on reforms making unfair contract terms illegal and giving regulators powers to levy multi-million dollar fines against companies writing them.

Aristocrat Technologies' intellectual property dispute against former employee Dinh Toan Tran has begun with a scramble for documents and devices in Tran's possession via court search orders.

Hearings in a competition review of ANZ's play for Suncorp Bank have ended today much how they started, with debates of uncertainty and in the weeds of semantics.

In the Federal Court on Thursday the competition regulator got its chance to defend its earlier decision to block ANZ's acquisition of Suncorp Bank.

The competition regulator says a merged ANZ-Suncorp would be 3.5x the size of its nearest rival outside the Big Four — Macquarie Bank.