In only the second case of its kind, ASIC has taken non-bank lender Firstmac to court over alleged breaches of design and distribution obligations in relation to its High Livez managed investment scheme.
Gaming company Konami will cough up $35.9 million dollars to rival company Aristocrat Technologies next year, eight years after a judge found that it had violated Aristocrat’s patent for a slot machine with an improved jackpot feature.
The High Court has found that property data analytics firm CoreLogic did not infringe a real estate photographer’s copyright by uploading images from realestate.com.au to its platform, overturning a decision of the Full Federal Court.
Nine has mostly lost its bid to shield documents produced under subpoena in a defamation case brought over A Current Affair’s coverage of barrister Gina Edwards’ custody battle for famed social media pooch Oscar the cavoodle.
A former contractor of investment management fund Courtenay House who received over $670,000 in commissions from investors has pleaded guilty to two criminal charges after an ASIC investigation revealed the company duped 585 investors in a $180 million Ponzi scheme.
Two Dixon Advisory insurers have lost a bid to limit the details of insurance policies handed over to a class action purported to worth $463 million, after a judge’s ruled the collapsed wealth manager should disclose its insurance for liability in the case.
A judge has signed off on a group costs order in class action against Allianz over add-on car insurance that will give plaintiff law firms Johnson Winter & Slattery and Maurice Blackburn no more than 25 per cent of any resolution in the case.
Property developer Fowler Homes has admitted that its standard contract included an unfair non-disparagement clause preventing customers from publishing negative reviews or other feedback without the company’s permission.
A Sydney barrister was embarrassed and afraid to return to chambers following Channel Nine’s allegedly defamatory coverage of her custody battle for famed social media pooch Oscar the cavoodle, a court has heard.
The Australian supplier of alleged combustible cladding is opposing a class action applicant’s bid for information ahead of settlement talks on the quantity of cladding sold in the country between 2009 and 2019.