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Australia's Country Care settles with law firm that provided impugned antitrust legal advice

By James Panichi ( December 20, 2022, 01:01 GMT | Insight) -- The final chapter of Australia’s first-ever criminal-cartel trial has ended, with MLex confirming that the owner of the Country Care Group, Robert Hogan, and the small-town law firm that had provided him with contested antitrust advice have reached an undisclosed, out-of-court settlement. Hogan had argued that O’Farrell Robertson McMahon had been negligent when it included a clause that sparked a three-year prosecution and culminated in a 12-week trial in 2021, which ended in a jury acquitting the accused.The final chapter of Australia’s first-ever criminal-cartel trial has ended, with MLex confirming that the owner of the Country Care Group, Robert Hogan, and the small-town law firm that had provided him with contested antitrust advice have reached an undisclosed, out-of-court settlement....

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