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Honda tells court it should be on the hook for $12M in spat with dealer
Contracts 2024-11-12 11:17 pm By Andy Sidler

Dealer Brighton Automative is gunning for $13.9 million in damages after Honda cut its contract off prematurely, with Honda hopeful the figure is more like $12.1 million. 

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iSignthis’ John Karantzis could not pay $1.5M penalty, court told
ASIC 2024-10-21 11:38 pm By Andy Sidler

The former CEO of fintech iSignthis would need a loan to pay a $1.5 million penalty sought by the corporate regulator for breaches of directors duties, a court has heard.

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Sleeping Duck shareholder rejected $4M settlement in failed oppression suit
Securities 2024-09-04 11:32 pm By Andy Sidler

A Sleeping Duck shareholder has been ordered to pay the company’s costs on an indemnity basis in its failed oppression suit, with a judge finding that its decisions to reject Sleeping Duck’s buy-out offers of roughly $4 million were unreasonable.

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BlueScope says it ‘went close to the line’, but did not breach cartel laws
Competition & Consumer Protection 2024-08-26 11:27 pm By Sam Matthews

BlueScope Steel is seeking to overturn a record $57.5 million penalty for engaging in attempted price-fixing with flat steel distributors, telling an appeals court that it was simply trying to make its competitors understand “it was in their interests to price differently”. 

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Melbourne Football Club defeats member’s challenge to board election rules
Sports 2024-08-22 11:37 pm By Andy Sidler

Legal action by a Melbourne Football Club member challenging the AFL club’s board election rules has been dismissed, with a judge finding the rule banning campaigning by candidates is not oppressive as alleged.

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Firm accused of copying rivals’ class action pleadings loses IC Markets beauty parade
Class Actions 2024-08-02 10:13 am By Cat Fredenburgh

Two judges have declined to award carriage of a class action against International Capital Markets over risky derivative products to a firm accused of plagiarising its rivals’ pleading.

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ASIC accuses COFCO of manipulating wheat futures markets
ASIC 2024-07-25 2:46 pm By Cindy Cameronne

ASIC has brought civil penalty proceedings against Chinese government-owned agri-business COFCO, alleging it manipulated the market for Eastern Australian wheat futures market contracts in 2022. 

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Law firms take aim at rival’s ‘copied’ pleadings in battle to run IC Markets class action
Class Actions 2024-07-04 11:08 pm By Sam Matthews

In a contest to run a class action against International Capital Markets over risky derivative products, a proposed consolidated proceeding has taken aim at third-to-file Banton Group for allegedly copying its case. 

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‘Alarming’: ASIC suspects ex-Keystone boss may have used investor funds to buy home
Financial Services 2024-06-25 11:29 pm By Cindy Cameronne

A judge has expressed concern about the Australian Securities and Investments Commission’s suspicion that a former director of Keystone Asset Management may have used investor funds to purchase a house in his wife’s name, calling it “alarming”.

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Optus had four years to fix coding error behind massive cyberattack, says ACMA
Privacy & Cybersecurity 2024-06-24 11:08 pm By Cindy Cameronne

The Australian Communications and Media Authority says a coding error on a dormant website that went undetected for four years was behind a massive data breach that exposed the information of close to 10 million Optus customers, with the regulator saying the hack was “not highly sophisticated”. 

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