Mayfair 101’s James Mawhinney has been arrested and charged with four counts of engaging in dishonest conduct in running his beleaguered wealth management business.
A judge has refused to redact a judgment signing off on the discontinuance of several product claims in a class action against three AMP subsidiaries after the applicant failed to gather the required evidence, saying it was not enough that the reasons “may be an embarrassment to people who commenced the proceeding”.
In a win for the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission, a court has found Dominique Grubisa’s DG Institute made misleading statements to students who paid up to $9,000 to enrol in her property investment and wealth management programs.
A funder that bankrolled a class action that was stayed against Dixon Advisory has argued it should receive $969,000 from a $16 million settlement reached in the competing proceedings that went ahead, saying its costs were spent to protect group members’ interests.
British bank HSBC has been stung with $33,000 in penalties for alleged violations of rules designed to increase transparency and competition in the banking sector.
Dentons continues to grow its ranks with the recruitment of banking and finance partner, Yechiel Belfer, from Baker McKenzie.
In a loss for the Australian Taxation Office, an appeals court has found that the Liberty Group’s use of corporate and trust ‘silos’ was not an unlawful tax avoidance scheme.
ANZ has agreed to pay $57.5 million in a settlement of a class action over retrospective interest charges on credit cards.
Westpac subsidiary BT Funds Management and Tal Life Insurance have foreshadowed applications to strike out the pleadings of a class action alleging superannuation customers were overcharged for insurance coverage.
King & Wood Mallesons has settled a lawsuit by defunct stockbroker Halifax Investment Services alleging the firm and former auditor Bentleys failed to advise that it had to hold client funds used to trade on its online platform on trust.