Tuesday, 24 March 2026
Misleading Conduct, Unfair Contract Terms and Pricing Practices: Recent ACCC Enforcement Trends
- Misleading advertising practices, including strike-through pricing; ACCC v Emma Sleep and failures to deliver goods or services within advertised timeframes; ACCC v Mosaic
- Auto-renewal subscriptions and their potential to mislead consumers; ACCC v eHarmony
- Controversial pricing strategies, such as drip pricing and dynamic pricing
Presented by Daniel Tynan SC, 12 Wentworth Selborne Chambers; Recognised in Doyle’s Guide and Legal 500 as a Leading Barrister in Competition and Consumer Law, co-author of Uniform Evidence Law: Commentary and Materials 7th ed, 2023
Description
Attend and earn 0.5 CPE Hour in Intellectual Property
This program is applicable to practitioners from all States & Territories
Chair
Georgia Campbell, Senior Associate, Thomson Geer
Presenters
Daniel Tynan SC, 12 Wentworth Selborne ChambersDaniel has been practising at the New South Wales Bar since 2008. He is an experienced advocate with a broad ranging commercial practice and regularly appears in large, complex, high profile and high value litigation. Daniel has particular expertise in competition law and consumer law in which he is regarded as one of Australia’s leading barristers. In this field he regularly advises and acts for private clients and the ACCC and has appeared in many of the significant cases in recent years. Daniel is listed in Doyle’s Guide and Legal 500 as a Leading Barrister in Competition and Consumer Law. He has represented multinational companies, financial institutions and individuals in proceedings brought by various international and domestic regulators involving allegations of cartel conduct, fraud, market manipulation, money laundering and other corporate crime and misconduct. Daniel appears principally in trial and appellate matters in the Federal Court and State Supreme Courts. Daniel is briefed regularly in proceedings for and against Australia’s key regulatory agencies including the ACCC, ASIC, AUSTRAC, the AFP, the TGA, the OAIC and the New South Wales Crime Commission.

Georgia Campbell, Senior Associate, Thomson Geer
Georgia is a Senior Associate in Thomson Geer's Intellectual Property, Technology and Regulatory Team in Brisbane and has been working in the area of intellectual property for more than ten years. Georgia practices in all areas of intellectual property law, including intellectual property and technology disputes (involving trade marks, copyright, patents, designs and confidential information), licensing, agreements and litigation, and also has experience with commercial litigation, defamation and media law, privacy law, franchising law, and competition and consumer law. She acts for various entities from start-ups to large Australian and international corporations across a range of industries, including mining, construction, health and creative industries. Georgia has been involved in a range of litigation matters in the Federal and Federal Circuit Courts of Australia, as well as the State Court jurisdiction in Queensland. She regularly acts for clients in matters before IP Australia and the Intellectual Property Office of New Zealand and is also admitted as a barrister and solicitor in the High Court of New Zealand. She is a registered trade marks attorney and completed her Master of Laws with a focus on intellectual property law, privacy law and competition and consumer law in 2023.