Shadow attorney-general Mark Dreyfus said he watched âin horrorâ as a bill mandating that funded class actions be registered as managed investment schemes passed through Parliament in 2020 without consultation.
Mayfair 101 director James Mawhinney has sought a temporary stay of ASICâs case accusing him of being in contempt of court for allegedly breaching a 20-year ban on selling financial products.
Online trading platform IronFX has won its action against the Australian Financial Complaints Authority over a finding it wrongfully caused an 83 year-old French resident to lose his life savings.
A former Salter Brothers client has filed a lawsuit against the fund manager, claiming it misled her about an investment fund marketed as part of a visa program to migrate to Australia.
A bid by the liquidators of collapsed engineering company Hastie Group for Lendlease to pay back funds it withdrew under bank guarantees is âuntenableâ and âmisconceivedâ, a court has heard in a $68 million case that also targets Multiplex, Grocon and John Holland.
A high profile Tasmanian lawyer has been found guilty of professional misconduct for an âongoing failureâ to progress his clientâs case or respond to her questions for two and a half decades.
Viterra has lost its battle to maintain freezing orders against two Australian business as it seeks to enforce an $18.7 million arbitration award against a related but separate Chinese company.
The world’s largest macadamia grower has launched an appeal of an IP Australia decision that found its logo mark was deceptively similar to US confectionary giant Marsâ trade marks for its flagship candy M&Ms.
A judge has suggested that a class action against the New South Wales government over a mandate requiring healthcare workers to be vaccinated against COVID-19 should be de-classed, saying it was a âstraightforward pointâ because no financial relief was sought.
McDonaldâs has been hit with a lawsuit on behalf of 339 employees across four states alleging it systematically failed to give workers paid 10-minute breaks, a month after a class action was filed against the fast food giant for allegedly denying workers rest breaks.