The litigation funder behind a fraudulent scheme in a class action over Banksia Securities has entered administration with negligible assets to its name.
The former chief financial officer of beleaguered Forum Group has been dragged into a lawsuit by Westpac seeking to recoup $294 million in funds paid into an alleged fraudulent scheme.
Indian generics giant Dr Reddyâs Laboratories must give Bristol-Myers Squib unit Celgene Corporation three monthsâ notice before deciding to sell generic versions of blockbuster cancer drug Revlimid in Australia.
A Federal Circuit Court judge has hit back at accusations he conducted âthe grossest parody of a court hearingâ when he unlawfully imprisoned a Queensland man for contempt of court, telling a trial âhe is a human being [who] made a mistakeâ.
More than 18 months after a split emerged among the courts, the Full Federal Court will weigh in on whether judges have power to shut out unregistered group members from a class action. But given the breadth of the question for the appeals court, the issue is unlikely to be resolved there.
A judge has said if he sides with a former ANZ trader in a privilege dispute with the bank over file notes from 2014 meetings over ASIC’s bank bill swap rate investigations it would create a “whole world of pain” for solicitors claiming privilege over their notes in other cases.
A judge has ruled he will not consider a separate question on whether Acciona is barred from setting off any damages payable to Lendlease in a lawsuit over the $160 million sale of its engineering business.
A Melbourne solicitor has been banned from legal practice until 2035 after a tribunal found him guilty of eight charges of professional misconduct and unsatisfactory professional conduct for allegedly misleading a court about his entitlement to practice.
An alternative therapies clinic in Victoria has been hit with $3 million in penalties for allegedly promoting âpseudo-scientificâ treatments to vulnerable people with chronic illnesses in posts on social media and its website.
The Full Court is set to examine whether the Federal Court has the power to make class closure orders prior to mediation, weighing on one of the biggest unanswered questions vexing the class action regime.