The corporate regulator has launched legal action against Westpac Banking Corp. over a former financial planner’s poor advice that resulted in multimillion dollar losses to customers.
A Pizza Hut outlet on the Gold Coast has been hit with fines totalling $216,700 after it was found to have misclassified a delivery driver and falsified records to cover it up, the Fair Work Ombudsman said Friday.
Pokies giants Ainsworth Game Technology and Aristocrat Technologies have settled their spat over access to documents ahead of a hearing to decide if Aristocrat can gather evidence for a possible case alleging its rival stole an idea for a new poker machine.
A judge has dismissed an appeal of a ruling that blocked five Westpoint Group units from requiring Corrs Chambers to turn over invoices for the work the firm performed for the companies’ receivers.
The Construction, Forestry, Mining and Energy Union and one of its officials have been fined more than $50,000 after the official targeted a group of Chevron workers with a foul-mouthed “rant” for leaving the union.
The corporate regulator has launched civil proceedings against the former managing director of sandalwood oil producer Quintis, after the company kept its board in the dark about the termination of a supply contract with Nestle unit Galderma.
A record $4.75 million defamation payout to Australian actor Rebel Wilson was cut to $600,000 on Thursday by the Victorian Court of Appeal after a challenge by magazine publisher Bauer Media.
A judge has chided lawyers for lobbing “epistolary grenades” in the form of “ill-advised” emails in a civil case connected to an $8 million fraud by a former solicitor with law firm Atanaskovic Hartnell.
The High Court of Australia ruled Wednesday that Google can be sued for defamation by a man whose image popped up in an internet search of ‘Melbourne criminal underworld’.
Generic pharmaceutical company Aspen Pharma has resolved a patent infringement case brought by the maker of the anti-depressant Lexapro, according to a Federal Court order Tuesday.