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. 

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. 

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 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. 

A creditor of developer The Gosford has filed an appeal in a dispute over a $185 million property in Sydney, after a judge found that $48 million owed by builder Shinetec to its parent company after the developer called on a letter of credit fell within the definition of ‘secured money’.

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

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 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.

A class action brought by Sydney Trains’ operations staff alleging they were overworked and underpaid has settled for between $6 and $7.6 million. 

A judge has declined to extend an injunction that barred ASX-traded Structural Monitoring Systems from sacking its CEO after he launched whistleblower proceedings against the aerospace company.