AMP has been taken to court by a former licenced financial advisor who alleges he was terminated without proper and sufficient cause and forced to sell his business for $6.1 million under the wealth manager’s buyer of last resort program.
The receivers of Sydney fraudster Melissa Caddick’s estate have reached an agreement with her husband on a small pool of remaining assets in dispute that will see half of her teenaged son’s sneaker collection sold to repay defrauded investors.
A leading class action firm may seek compensation for those who were illegally detained after the High Court ruled that Australia’s system of holding individuals indefinitely in immigration detention is unlawful.
The High Court has declined to weigh in on a dispute between a retired law firm partner and the ATO over tax on $182,000 in goodwill payments the lawyer received upon exiting the firm’s partnership.
South Korean biosimilars company Samsung Bioepis has sued to invalidate two patents held by a German competitor for a pre-filled syringe to treat age-related eye diseases, as generic drug makers race for a piece of the lucrative eye drug market.
The Indian government has lodged an appeal after a judge found it can’t avoid a $111.3 million arbitral award in a dispute with three Mauritian companies that invested in Indian satellites.
Fleet management company FleetPartners has been stung with a shareholder class action over a revised 2019 earnings guidance that doomed its planned merger with McMillan Shakespeare.
AustralianSuper has admitted that it contravened superannuation regulations when it failed to merge the accounts of members who had multiple accounts, but says it has remediated affected customers more than $69 million.
South Australian MP Rebekha Sharkie has asked a court to throw out a “misconceived” lawsuit by a former staffer accusing her of bullying, saying she is not an ’employer’ under the Fair Work Act.
Plaintiff law firm Shine Lawyers has succeeded in narrowing the services an early learning services chain can register its ‘Shine Advantage’ trade mark for.