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Meta wins access to info on ‘Sue Facebook’ tokens bankrolling crypto class action
Class Actions 2022-10-28 11:56 pm By Christine Caulfield

Digital giant Meta can access information on crypto tokens issued to fund a class action over Facebook’s ban on cryptocurrency ads, but the identities of those who have bought the tokens can be kept under wraps.

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Facebook flags potential conflict of interest in cryptocurrency ad class action
Cryptocurrency 2022-10-25 2:45 pm By Sam Matthews

Facebook owner Meta wants to uncover the basis on which crypto tokens have been issued to bankroll a class action over its 2018 ban on cryptocurrency ads, citing the potentially conflicted interests of the self-represented lead applicant.

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Mayfair’s James Mawhinney wants High Court to shut down ASIC case
Appeals 2022-10-12 9:43 pm By Sam Matthews

The founder of beleaguered investment group Mayfair 101, James Mawhinney, has asked the High Court to overturn his own successful Full Court appeal of a decision that saw him banned from soliciting funds or promoting any financial product for 20 years.

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Mayfair 101 loses appeal of $30M penalty in ASIC’s misleading conduct case
Financial Services 2022-10-10 12:08 pm By Christine Caulfield

In a win for the corporate regulator, an appeals court has rejected investment group Mayfair 101’s appeal of a $30M penalty following a judge’s finding that it misled investors about the level of risk of its financial products.

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Facebook, Google take aim at cryptocurrency ad class action
Competition & Consumer Protection 2022-09-23 3:00 pm By Cat Fredenburgh

Facebook and Google have flagged their intention to seek a stay or declassing order in a class action over a 2018 ban on cryptocurrency ads.

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Mawhinney slammed for taking lawyers’ reputation ‘hostage’ in ASIC appeal
Financial Services 2022-08-26 11:50 pm By Sam Matthews

The former legal representatives of James Mawhinney have hit back at allegations of incompetence by the embattled Mayfair 101 founder on the last day of his appeal against decisions that saw him banned from soliciting funds or promoting any financial product for 20 years.

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Biggin & Scott shouldn’t be liable for ‘indifference’ to source code infringement, High Court told
High Court 2022-08-22 2:47 pm By Cat Fredenburgh

Biggen & Scott should not be held liable for copyright infringement for its supposed “indifference” to the copying of real estate marketing platform Campaigntrack’s source code by a developer, the real estate agency group argues in a special leave application to the High Court.

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Biggin & Scott infringed copyright by copying source code, Full Court finds
Appeals 2022-07-07 4:52 pm By Christine Caulfield

Real estate marketing platform Campaigntrack has won an appeal of a ruling in an important copyright case over its cloud-based software that accused real estate agency group Biggin & Scott of authorising reproduction of the software’s source code.

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Viagogo loses appeal of $7M penalty for duping consumers
Competition & Consumer Protection 2022-05-18 2:03 pm By Sam Matthews

Viagogo has lost a bid to overturn a $7 million penalty handed down after a judge found the ticket reseller misled customers on an “industrial scale”.

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‘That’s not what investors signed up for’: Linchpin used funds for unauthorised loans, court told
Trials 2022-03-08 9:40 pm By Sam Matthews

Clients of Linchpin Capital Group and subsidiary Endeavour Securities who were promised investments in a diversified loan portfolio were instead duped into funding Linchpin’s own business interests and lining its directors’ pockets, a judge has heard as trial got underway in ASIC’s case against three former Linchpin directors.

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