YouTube comedian Jordan Shanks has apologised to former NSW Deputy Premier John Barilaro for hurt caused by videos posted in 2020 and 2021 but won’t be paying any damages as part of a settlement of a high profile defamation case.
Lawyers for JPMorgan went to the ACCC’s office to review a draft statement of the investment bank’s then managing director Jeffrey Herbert-Smith, an immunity witness for the competition regulator in its troubled criminal cartel case over an ANZ share placement, a court has heard.
Three law firms and a consultancy are fighting a bid by defunct financial advisor Dover Financial to bring negligence claims against two lawyers over a so-called client protection policy found to be “an exercise in Orwellian doublespeak”.
Drug company Ono Pharmaceutical has faced tough questioning by an appeals court in a fight with IP Australia over a decision that secured it a patent extension for its cancer immunotherapy drug Opdivo.
US-based facial recognition software company Clearview AI has been ordered to cease collecting facial images from individuals in Australia and destroy all the data it has collected within the country.
Epic Game’s plan to lead econometric evidence in its dispute with Apple could be the first time such evidence has been led in a competition case in Australia, a judge has said, as he warned that the companies’ “unlimited resources and enthusiasm for victory” should not bog the case down.
Corporate advisory firm Bridge Street Capital has been hit with costs for funding the defence to a winding up application for a Sydney property developer which a judge found was âwoefullyâ insolvent.
E&P Financial Group says it will defend a class action brought against it, subsidiary Dixon Advisory and director Alan Dixon, alleging they reaped millions of dollars in fees by pushing unsuitable financial products onto investors.
Financial services company Dixon Advisory has been hit with a class action for allegedly pushing financial products onto investors that it stood to reap hundreds of millions of dollars in fees from and failing to disclose its alleged conflict of interest.
A judge has declined to quash the indictment in a high-profile criminal case over a $2.5 billion ANZ share placement but sent prosecutors back to the drawing board to remedy its defects, calling the state of affairs “a complete shemozzle”.