Four directors of coal producer TerraCom have flagged they will not show their hand in the corporate regulator’s first-ever case alleging breaches of whistleblower protections.
Power company Callide has been hit with a $9 million penalty for “very serious” contraventions of the National Electricity Rules that led to an explosion at a coal-fired power station.
ASIC has won approval to bring claims against troubled regional airline Rex and four of its directors for allegedly misleading investors about the company’s financial position.
The judge hearing ASIC’s case against super fund Cbus has criticised the practice of exchanging concise statements and responses, saying it was a “false economy” of time and cost savings.
A judge has ordered Honda to pay $13.6 million in damages to dealer Brighton Automotive in a suit over the car maker’s move away from a dealership model.
Hoping for a discounted penalty, fintech iSignthis has won its bid to adduce evidence of without prejudice offers it made to reach a resolution with ASIC before the regulator took it to court.
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.
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.
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.
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”.