Consumer law

• Crackdown on social media influencers who fail to disclose payments

  27th Jul 2023

  Christopher Morris discusses the ACCC’s crackdown on ‘the ever-increasing number of manipulative marketing techniques on social media, designed to exploit or pressure consumers into purchasing goods or services’, with reference to Australian Competition and Consumer Commission v Employsure Pty Ltd.

• Pandemic highlights gaps in consumer law: urgent reform & regulation needed to protect travellers

  8th Jul 2021

  Reform to Australian Consumer Law and further regulation is urgently needed to fix gaps that result in travellers losing money and receiving inconsistent refunds for cancelled travel.

• Aboriginal group launches defamation case against Channel 7

  11th Jul 2019

  Peter O’Brien represents a group of clients from the NT community of Yirrkala, who are suing Channel 7 in the Federal Court following a segment that was broadcast on Sunrise Breakfast. In June, Channel 7 attempted that argue that the community members’ Statement of Claim should be struck out.

• The poker machine case: Guy v Crown Melbourne Limited (No. 2) [2018] FCA 36

  4th Apr 2019

  Ngaire Watson discusses the case of Guy v Crown in which Ms Guy brought actions for misleading and deceptive conduct and unconscionable conduct under the Australian Consumer Law.