A former manager of stockbroking firm BBY Limited is the second senior employee to front court faced with criminal charges following the firm’s failure.
Moo Premium Foods has agreed to remove claims from its yoghurt tubs that the packaging is made from 100% ocean plastic, following an investigation by the ACCC as part of the regulator’s crackdown on greenwashing.
Optus has lodged an appeal of a judgment that found the teleco could not claim legal professional privilege to shield from a class action a report by consulting giant Deloitte into last year’s major data breach.
London-headquartered online trader Plus500 has been hit with a second class action by investors who lost money trading in highly leveraged financial products.
A judge has signed off on almost $7.5 million in fees billed by the law firm behind the pelvic mesh class action against Boston Scientific, eight months after he approved the device maker’s $105 million settlement.
A franchise class action against United Petroleum has asked a court for leave to expand the class action to include a group of commission agents and to add the oil company’s parent as a third defendant.
Accounting firm KPMG has asked the High Court for a second time to weigh in on the relevance of a contingency fee order made in a Victoria Supreme Court class action to its bid to transfer the case to NSW.
The High Court has dashed a BHP unit’s bid to appeal a win for the CFMMEU in a case on behalf of coal miners rostered for shifts on Christmas Day and Boxing Day in central Queensland’s Daunia Mine in 2019.
The High Court has denied special leave to the Commonwealth on behalf of employees of collapsed fintech Spitfire in a battle over $2 million in research and development tax refunds.
Probuild Constructions has failed in its special leave application to the High Court, which sought to challenge a ruling that it held $7.7 million in trust for insurer Allianz under a deed of indemnity in connection with the development of West Side Place in Spencer St, Melbourne.