Professional services firms should be limited to 400 partners to improve accountability and transparency, a final parliamentary report into the PwC tax scandal has proposed.
The High Court has upheld appeals in class actions against Ford and Toyota over the calculation of damages for reduction in value of defective vehicles.
NAB has successfully opposed a US company’s bid to register a trade mark for ‘UWallet’, with IP Australia rejecting claims the bank was trying to establish a “de facto monopoly”.
Still feeling aftershocks from last year’s tax leaks scandal, PricewaterhouseCoopers has lost seven partners to the risk and regulatory team of Big Six law firm MinterEllison.
Class closure orders are “anathema” to the purpose of group proceedings in facilitating access to justice and should never be ordered, the High Court has been told.
Isuzu is not giving up its bid to slam the brakes on a suit by car alarm company Directed Electronics over alleged trade secrets theft.
Medibank is seeking to shield from a shareholder class action an “irrelevant” post-incident report by Deloitte into its massive October 2022 data breach.
Former radio host Antoinette Lattouf will argue at trial that the ex-chair of the ABC, Ita Buttrose, and managing director David Anderson were involved in the decision to terminate her contract.
A class action targeting Westpac subsidiary BT Funds and Tal Life Insurance was discontinued after documents discovered by the companies caused funder Woodsford to bow out.
A ‘junk’ insurance class action against Suncorp unit AAI wants an initial trial to deal with the claim — absent a sample group member — that car dealers made purchasing a policy necessary for a loan.