Google has hit back at the ACCCâs case accusing it of misleading users about a change to its privacy policy, saying laws against misleading and deceptive conduct do not apply to those who did not read the notification about the change.
Former Slater & Gordon managing director Andrew Grech has told the Federal Court he regretted his “catastrophic error” in approving the $1.2 billion acquisition of Quindell’s professional services division, which resulted in massive losses for the plaintiffs law firm.
Defence minister Peter Dutton has won $35,000 in damages in a defamation case over a tweet accusing him of being a rape apologist, with a judge finding the tweet conveyed that the minister âexcuses rapeâ.
A former partner at accounting firm Pitcher Partners has told a court that he had issues working with Ernst & Young on an audit of law firm Slater & Gordon, calling the Big 4 firm “uncooperative”.
The lead applicant in a shareholder class action over Slater & Gordonâs disastrous $1.2 billion Quindell acquisition has said he might have âdumpedâ his stock before the firm experienced massive losses in 2016 if not for Pitcher Partners and Ernst & Youngâs allegedly faulty advice.
Accounting firms EY and Pitcher Partners ignored âfront page newsâ that Slater & Gordonâs acquired business Quindell was scrutinised by a UK regulator after reporting a $250 million (ÂŁ137 million) loss, a court heard on the second day of trial in a class action by the law firmâs 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.
The Morrison government decision’s to enter into a contract with a subsidiary of Empire Energy for gas exploration in the Beetaloo Basin was an effort to “stymie” climate change litigation brought against the federal resources minister, a court has heard.
BlueScope general manager Jason Ellis made executives of a steel distributor âextremely uncomfortableâ in a meeting where he presented the steel giantâs price list, a court hearing the ACCCâs price-fixing case was told Monday.
A settlement in the class action against Crown Resorts put paid to an in-person trial before it began, but gathering in court on Friday to notify the presiding judge of the happy outcome was enough to remind the Victorian litigators what they had missed over the past 18 months.