Events

More than 38,000 retail investors have received nearly $40 million in refunds after an ASIC investigation found “widespread weaknesses” in how issuers of contracts for difference products comply with their obligations. 

BHP has filed a High Court challenge to orders requiring it to pay labour hire workers at mines in central Queensland the same as its workers.

A court has largely set aside examination orders against executives and solicitors for oil and gas company Moreton Resources and MRV Metals, finding they were an abuse of process. 

A Queensland solicitor has been fined and reprimanded for sending a letter that “grossly exceeded” an assertion of his client’s rights and making an allegation that was not “reasonably justified” in a family law case. 

The headmaster of The King’s School has settled Fair Work proceedings brought against the elite Sydney school late last year. 

A judge has refused to bifurcate a dispute between Smart Trikes and Target over the supply and eventual recall of allegedly unsafe convertible strollers, finding any time and cost savings were likely to prove illusory. 

Merck KGaA has failed to block Pfizer’s 'Abrysvo' trade mark for its RSV vaccine, with a delegate finding no likelihood of confusion with the mark for Merck’s Mavenclad MS drug despite their visual similarities. 

A director of developer Villawood has lost his bid to bring an alternative claim in his case against the company’s subsidiary alleging he is entitled to part of a property said to be worth $295 million.

A judge has declined to reinstate the ex-CEO of sustainable building not-for-profit Australia Passivhaus Association while her suit alleging she was unlawfully terminated after complaining about serious governance issues moves forward. 

The declaration of Melbourne's CBD as a designated area permitting increased police search powers was justified to prevent violence, the Victoria government told a court Friday.