Consumer law and civil penalties – appeal from primary judge rejecting agreed penalty and imposing substantially higher penalty – Proctor

Volkswagen Aktiengesellschaft v Australian Competition and Consumer Commission [2021] FCAFC 49 (9 April 2021) concerned the pecuniary penalty imposed on Volkswagen for its admitted contraventions of s29(1)(a) of the Australian Consumer Law (ACL).

This was in relation to its deception of…