Most Recent
The corporate regulator is pushing for a three-year director ban against former Murray Goulburn managing director Gary Helou and a two-year disqualification order against the dairy cooperative's former chief financial officer over misleading representations about farmgate milk prices five years ago.
The funder that backed a class action against McMillan Shakespeare over 'illusory' car warranties, which settled for less than 20 per cent of the $47.6 million claim value, will seek court approval for a 30 per cent cut of the $9.5 million settlement.
The lead applicant in a $47.6 million class action against McMillan Shakespeare over 'illusory' car warranties will seek court approval for a $9.5 million settlement, less than 20 per cent of the claim value.
The High Court has declined to take up Mylan's challenge to a Full Court ruling upholding the invalidity of three patents for its blockbuster cholesterol drug Lipidil.
The Federal Court has ordered former Tennis Australia director Harold Mitchell to pay a $90,000 penalty after a "narrow" win for ASIC in its case over the domestic broadcast rights to the Australian Open.
A showdown over two competing class actions against AMP is set down for December, and the applicants will have to persuade the judge overseeing the cases that they should not be consolidated.
A judge has sided with Worley in a ruling tossing a class action after a trial alleged the engineering company misled shareholders and breached disclosure rules by issuing an overly positive earnings guidance of $322 million for the 2014 financial year.
A judge's decision to throw out a shareholder class action against engineering company Worley is a loss for plaintiffs lawyers and could result in fewer listed companies willing to settle cases alleging they breached their disclosure obligations, but the ruling is not likely to have a significant chilling effect on securities litigation.
A judge has given the greenlight to AUSTRAC's $1.3 billion penalty against Westpac over the bank's 23 million breaches of money laundering and counter-terrorism laws, the biggest regulatory fine ever paid by an Australian company.