Buy now, pay later giant Zip will ask the High Court to throw out a ruling that found it infringed mortgage provider Firstmac’s ‘Zip’ trade mark and barred it from using the name in Australia.
A judge has approved a $3.5 million settlement in a class action brought by former clients of Sydney fraudster Melissa Caddick.
The corporate regulator has caned the super fund industry for its poor handling of death benefit claims it said had “devastating impacts” on members’ grieving relatives.
A judge overseeing the settement approval process in a flex commissions class action against ANZ has issued a warning to third parties “seeking to profit” off group members, as a claim aggregator appears on the scene.
Payday lender Sunshine Loans has lost an appeal after it was ruled liable for “wrongheaded” conduct, with an appeals court finding that counsel showed an “egregious failure” to confine the case to the real issues.
A Toyota flex commissions class action can’t retroactively join claims about alleged junk insurance made in a separate case to protect against a limitations defence, with a judge describing such applications as “prima facie vexatious”.
Fortrend Securities has appealed a finding that it breached the Fair Work Act in withholding the bonuses of two financial advisors who jumped to rival Shaw & Partners.
An appeals court has found Zip Co infringed the ‘Zip’ trade mark of mortgage provider Firstmac, making orders restraining the buy now, pay later giant from using the name.
The trustee for Active Super has been ordered to pay a $10.5 million penalty for misleading members about its investments in gambling, oil tar sands and Russian companies.
The Australian Securities and Investments Commission will seek to wind up investment firm Falcon Capital after obtaining freezing orders over its assets.