Events

Google has agreed to pay a $55 million penalty for making anti-competitive agreements requiring Telstra and Optus to pre-install Google Search on Android devices they sold.

A judge has hit Qantas with a $90 million penalty for unlawfully outsourcing its ground crew staff during the COVID-19 pandemic, saying the airline was “the wrong kind of sorry”. 

A judge has signed off on a $59 million settlement in a class action accusing five banks of foreign exchange rate-rigging, while bemoaning the failure of successive attorneys-general to advance reforms clarifying the court’s power to make class closure orders.

A judge has dismissed a bid by a group of labour hire companies to disqualify former Labor MP now Fair Work Commission deputy president Terri Butler from same job, same pay cases for apprehended bias.

The Port Authority of NSW has won its claim for public interest immunity over six cabinet documents in a suit by a defunct sand importer over a lease agreement for a mulit-user facility at Glebe Island, with a judge finding they had little forensic value.

A judge has declined to order security in developer Gilridge Investments’ payment claim fight with Diamond Builders over a $5.3 million apartment project, saying the builder failed to show the penniless developer would not be able to cover its costs after completing the troubled project.

HESTA Super has complained that the tax office has unfairly stripped it of $11 million in franking credits, denying it did not hold the credits 'at risk' for the required 45-day period. 

Online investment platform eToro has won its bid to rely on late expert evidence in ASIC's first-ever action alleging breach of obligations in designing and selling financial products over high-risk contracts for difference.

The public body in charge of managing the Murray Darling’s water resources has slammed as "incoherent" a class action's claims that it owes a duty of care to protect farmers and irrigators against economic loss.

Mercer Super faces enforcement action by ASIC, alleging the superannuation giant failed to inform the watchdog about investigations into serious issues, including a failure to refund premiums to dead members.