13 May 2021

Telstra admitted the conduct and the penalty imposed is the second highest ever under the Australian Consumer Law.

23 March 2021

Full Federal Court upholds ACCC appeal in statutory unconscionable conduct case.

28 November 2019

The Federal Court (Justice Bromwich) has found that training college Australian Institute of Professional Education Pty Ltd (AIPE) implemented a system of unconscionable conduct and engaged in misleading and deceptive conduct when enrolling consumers into courses.

31 October 2019

The Federal Court has ordered Unique International College to pay more than $4m in pecuniary penalties for contravening consumer laws in the process of enrolling six identified consumers in online courses with the offer of a free laptop. The conduct involved included unconscionable conduct (against five consumers), making false or misleading customers (against four consumers) and breaching the unsolicited consumer agreements provisions (against six consumers).

12 June 2019

The High Court (by 4-3 majority) has held that Kobelt's provision of 'book-up' credit to a remote Indigenous community was not unconscionable conduct