A barrister for CEO and founder of Euro Pacific Bank Peter Schiff has raised concerns that Nine has filed an unlawful defence in a defamation case over a 60 Minutes episode accusing the bank boss of tax evasion and helping figures in organised crime.
QSuper has hit back at a class action over its alleged failure to notify members of changes to its premiums, saying group members failed to heed a “large font” notice of the changes and that any recoveries cannot be paid out to the law firm and funder running the litigation.
The CEO of Optus has come out swinging against a proposed 10-year agreement between TPG and Telstra to share mobile network infrastructure and spectrum in parts of regional Australia, warning it would harm consumers.
Uber has appealed a ruling that found many of its email exchanges with its lawyers were made in furtherance of offences at the centre of a class action and were not protected by legal professional privilege.
Mercedes-Benz is facing a potential class action over a recall affecting over 17,000 vehicles installed with faulty brake boosters.
The Fair Work Commission has overturned a finding that an Australian National University professor was unfairly fired over a 30-minute “intimate” beach encounter with a student, saying the student was unfairly cast as an “embittered seductress.”
A former CEO of defunct investment research firm van Eyk has admitted to breaching his duties by using his position as director of a subsidiary to dishonestly retain control of the company.
Two Sydney roof tiling businesses have made admissions in civil penalty proceedings brought by the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission alleging they rigged bids for construction at the University of Sydney.
The National Tertiary Education Industry Union has brought proceedings against the University of the Sunshine Coast for allegedly allocating teaching and research work to academic staff that did not “accurately reflect the time taken to do the work”.
The former CEO of failed electronics retailer Dick Smith should be held responsible for approving two dividend payments worth $28.5 million which the company could not afford to pay given it owed millions in unpaid bank loans and supplier debts, an appeals court has heard.