A judge said he âgaggedâ at the Australian Competition and Consumer Commissionâs proposed $5 million pecuniary penalty in its case against specialist workplace relations company Employsure over six misleading Google ads.
JPMorgan bigwigs who are key witnesses for the prosecution in its cartel case over ANZâs botched share placement in 2015 will be questioned by Citibank and Deutsche ahead of trial.
A court has struck down the third wave of challenges to the New South Wales public health orders mandating COVID-19 vaccinations for health workers, ruling the “dictates” of a personâs conscience do not relieve them of compliance with the orders.
The Commonwealth Bank of Australia has failed in its bid to dismiss a case brought by customers who claim they were the victims of “cuckoo-smurfing” and had funds seized as proceeds of crime because the bank breached its anti-money laundering obligations.
Accounting firm Pitcher Partners gave faulty advice ahead of Slater & Gordon’s disastrous $1.2 billion Quindell acquisition that was responsible for $800 million in the businessâ value âdisappearingâ within six months, a court heard on the first day of trial in a long-running class action by the law firm’s shareholders.
The Sparke Helmore partner at the centre of a $1 million professional negligence lawsuit attempted to conceal an âoversight of enormous proportionsâ that is said to have lost a property developer two lucrative contracts, a court has heard.
Maurice Blackburn is being sued by a factory worker who claims the law firm’s negligence in failing to file a lawsuit on time cost him the opportunity to recoup significant damages from his former employer for physical and psychological injuries sustained while on the job.
The Banksia Securities class action saga will return to the appeals court, with a lawyer indicating he plans to challenge last month’s ruling that found he knowingly assisted in a plot to defraud tens of thousands of investors in the collapsed lender.
In rejecting a bid by The Star Entertainment Group to recoup losses stemming from the COVID-19 pandemic, the Federal Court’s Chief Justice did “real and unexplained violence” to the construction of a business interruption policy the casino giant had taken out with Chubb, the Full Court has heard.
The former director of a central Queensland construction company relied on his Sparke Helmore solicitor to read over contracts for sale for him, a court has heard in a trial over allegations the law firmâs negligence led to a loss of more than $1 million.