Another auditor has landed in hot water over collapsed video company Big Unâs 2017 independent audit, with the lead accountant charged with making a false or misleading statement.
A judge has approved a $155,000 settlement in a class action on behalf of investors in failed streaming platform Guvera which racked up $500,000 in legal fees, saying the case should never have been filed as a class action and didn’t advance group members’ interests “one iota”.
A judge has held off selecting from a “basket of imponderables” in determining how he will hear two competition lawsuits by Epic Games against Apple and Google over the removal of the popular multiplayer game Fortnite from the tech giants’ online stores.
The former general counsel of UK-based transit payment service provider Littlepay has lost her bid to access the firm’s financial statements ahead of mediation in a lawsuit alleging she faced discrimination and bullying when she returned to work after the birth of twins.
A judge has questioned GMEâs pursuit of additional damages in its intellectual property lawsuit against Japanâs Uniden that alleges the upcoming launch by the wireless communication giant of two new CB radio products amounts to infringement of its design patent.Â
Epic Games has argued in favour of steaming ahead with a trial in its competition case against Apple while its parallel case against Google remains in the embryonic stage, but the tech giants say Google’s litigation should catch up in the hopes that the court can hear a joint trial or hold contemporaneous hearings.
A judge has questioned whether the lead applicant in a class action over sleep apnea machines with alleged safety defects was âappropriately resourcedâ to run the case against health tech giant Philips.
Calling it the âelephant in the roomâ, a judge overseeing a class action against Tyro over a major EFTPOS outage last year has said a dispute over who is eligible to join the case needs to be hashed out before retailers are notified of the proceedings.
A former auditor of collapsed video company BigUn has had his company auditor registration suspended for a year following an application by the corporate regulator over a conflict of interest.Â
The High Court has decided to weigh in on whether computer-implemented inventions are eligible for patent protection, granting special leave to Aristocrat Technologies to challenge a judgment that shot down four patents for its popular Lightning Link electronic poker machine.