Court : Australia High Court
..... but it did not allege that this conduct itself contravened the act, instead identifying the contravening conduct as making representations.) 118. the act of displaying an advertisement to people who otherwise would not see or hear it is clearly "conduct" capable of misleading or deceiving those who see ..... these reasons as "the sta travel advertisements", "the carsales advertisements", "the ausdog advertisement" and "the trading post advertisement" conveyed misleading and deceptive representations. what the present appeal concerns is whether, in all the circumstances, google (as distinct from the advertisers to whom the sponsored links belonged) engaged ..... and consumer commission ("the accc"), claims that particular search results displayed by the google search engine between 2005 and 2008 conveyed misleading and deceptive representations, and that, by publishing or displaying those search results, google engaged in conduct in contravention of s 52 of the trade practices act 1974 .....
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..... were found to effectively burden political communication. the regulations prevented protesters from making communications of that character. the particular regulation in issue prohibited people who did not have a valid game licence from entering permitted hunting areas between specified hours on two particular days. the burden was identified ..... prescribed system of representative and responsible government or the procedure for submitting a proposed amendment to the constitution to the informed decision of the people which the constitution prescribes" and second, whether the impugned law "is reasonably appropriate and adapted to achieving that legitimate object or end". ..... australia. the reasonable person would also be endowed with the awareness that participants in political debate in australia include people who are reasonable, people who are unreasonable and people who are reasonable about some things some of the time and unreasonable about other things at other times. the .....
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