The owner of a Whitsundays resort has been ordered to hand over $430,738 to an employee whose roommate in staff accommodation allegedly urinated on him after a night of drinking.
A Federal Court judge has criticised “inappropriate” class action reforms pushed by the government, saying the courts have done a āgood jobā of crafting solutions to deal with issues that arise in the class action regime.
Shadow attorney-general Mark Dreyfus said he watched āin horrorā 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 ASICās 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 āuntenableā and āmisconceivedā, 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 āongoing failureā to progress his clientās 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 Marsā trade marks for its flagship candy M&Ms.