BackgroundThe TPG Internet Pty Ltd is a company that engaged in providing telephone and internet connections to the consumers under the name ADSL2+. The ACCC had initiatd legal proceedings against the company on the grounds of encouraging misleading and deceptive advertisements (Thampapillai et al. 2015). The Company was alleged that the advertisements were misleading and deceptive in nature. This is evident from the facts: There was a differ...
BackgroundQuestion 1 The three issues with the TPG’s advertising included: TPG failed to specify the price of supplying broadband internet ADSL2+service in a good way and as one figure. Instead of displaying a single price of the entire offer, TPG provided different prices which were kind of confusing the consumers. TPG made a false and misleading representation by providing different prices various advertising medium (Paterson &...
Application The subject matter of the case is based on the employment contract and validity of the same. Considering the case study, it has been observed that certain preliminary agreements made in between Max and the company, where the company has made certain offer to Max. According to the general rule of employment contract, preliminary contracts are binding in nature. According to Masters v Cameron (1954) 91 CLR 353, in any preliminary ...