Professional services giant PricewaterhouseCoopers has hit back at a class action over a $50 million prospectus for Axsesstoday, filing a cross-claim against the asset finance lender and saying it âtakes no responsibilityâ for allegedly defective offer documents.
Mazda’s treatment of customers with defective vehicles was “appalling” and its statements about their entitlement to a refund were false or misleading, a judge has found in a partial win for the ACCC.
Victoria’s Alfred and St Vincent’s hospitals are the targets of a new class action filed on behalf of junior doctors alleging they were not paid for unrostered work that included admitting patients and attending to medical emergencies.
Banking giant Westpac has admitted to allegations in six new cases by the Australian Securities and Investments Commission alleging widespread compliance failures across multiple businesses, and will agree to pay a combined $100 million penalty.
Apple has rejected claims that it misused its market power by pulling Epic Games’ popular Fortnite game from its App Store and says the move did not affect the game developer’s business because most of its revenue comes from other platforms.
The former director of investment management fund Courtenay House is facing a slew of criminal charges after an investigation by the Australian Securities and Investments Commission allegedly revealed he duped 590 investors in a $196 million Ponzi scheme.
Apple and Google’s legal woes in Australia are set to worsen, with a leading class action firm preparing to file class actions against the Silicon Valley giants for alleged competition and consumer law violations.
Japanese car maker Mitsubishi Motors has been hit with a class action for allegedly making misleading fuel efficiency representations on over 70,000 Triton Utes sold in Australia since 2015.
US pop star Katy Perry has been accused of using her âfinancial mightâ to âsnuff outâ the small business of an Australian fashion designer, as trial kicked off in a long-running intellectual property dispute over the rights to use the Katy Perry trade mark in Australia.
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.