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Watchdog's NSW Ports lawsuit is irrelevant, Mayfield tells top Australian court

By James Panichi ( June 2, 2025, 08:23 GMT | Insight) -- The failure of Australia’s antitrust watchdog to win a lawsuit against a port operator “says nothing” about the prospects of Mayfield Development Corporation in suing the same company, given that the allegations and the evidence are substantially different, the country’s top court has heard. In documents filed to the High Court of Australia, Mayfield said the lawsuit against NSW Port Operations filed by the Australian Competition & Consumer Commission was “different both in respect of the nature of the pleaded allegations and as a matter of substantive evidence.”The failure of Australia’s antitrust watchdog to win a lawsuit against a port operator “says nothing” about the prospects of Mayfield Development Corporation in suing the same company, given that the allegations and the evidence are substantially different, the country’s top court has heard....

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