News Corp has agreed to removed posts that allegedly defamed a senior member of the Hells Angels bikie gang by labelling him a “cocaine kingpin” and “fugitive from justice”.
Fortrend Securities has appealed a finding that it breached the Fair Work Act in withholding the bonuses of two financial advisors who jumped to rival Shaw & Partners.
The CDPP has dropped charges against former G8 Education director Jennifer Hutson related to the ASX-listed childcare company’s 2015 takeover bid for Affinity Education Group.
The ACCC has issued guidelines on a new merger review framework that will commence in a few months, outlining when so-called ‘serial’ and ‘killer’ acquisitions may come under fire. Draft merger assessment guidelines released Thursday detail the analytical framework the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission will bring to bear when deciding whether to green light…
Macquarie’s fight with a NSW credit union — which saw the bank’s ‘Macbank’ trade mark cancelled because, a delegate found, it had only been used colloquially — has landed in the Federal Court.
The Tax Office has asked the High Court to reverse a landmark ruling that found an unpaid present entitlement to a corporate beneficiary is not a loan under tax law, a decision that affects $50 billion in trust distributions.
A court has approved the discontinuance of two class actions against the Northern Territory government over its alleged failure to properly fund essential health and interpreting services in remote Indigenous communities.
Spanish infrastructure company Acciona has resolved proceedings over a contract for the construction of a $511 million waste-to-energy plant in Western Australia.
Vittoria Cantarella has taken the fight to revive its ‘Oro’ trade marks to the High Court, arguing the Full Court should have found it was an honest concurrent user of the marks, which were first used by another coffee maker.
A judge has rejected claims from the defendants in a sinking homes class action by Sydney homeowners that determining common question is not a ‘material change’ that would warrant additional discovery, but still declined to order discovery.