A judge has rejected an application by training provider Captain Cook College to postpone the hearing of its appeal in a case won by the ACCC, saying the company’s inability to fund the appeal was ālargely a problem of [its] own making.ā
A barrister who has sued Nine over its coverage of her battle for custody of famed social media pooch Oscar the cavoodle has accused the media company of seeking to delay filing a response to the lawsuit so that it can ‘fish’ for a defence.
Japan’s Uniden has been hit with an intellectual property lawsuit by Australia’s only CB radio manufacturer, which alleges the upcoming launch by the wireless communications giant of two new products amounts to infringement of its design patent.
Commonwealth Director of Public of Prosecutions Sarah McNaughton has defended her office’s decision to drop all criminal cartel charges over a $2.5 billion ANZ share raising, revealing the CDPP has so far spent $1.26 million in external costs in pursuing the case.
In a stunning reversal, the Commonwealth Director of Public Prosecution has dropped all criminal cartel charges against two investment banks and four individuals in relation to a $2.5 billion ANZ share placement, four years after the charges were brought following an allegedly questionable investigation by the ACCC.
A class action against failed Fairview Architectural over alleged combustible cladding hangs in the balance as a court sets the stage for a fight with insurer Vero over a $190 million policy.
Former Attorney-General Christian Porter and senior barrister Sue Chrysanthou have met with partial success in an eleventh hour bid to halt an order for payment of a $430,000 bill in a court battle with a friend of Porter’s rape accuser.
The applicant in a class action against Fairview Architectural over allegedly combustible cladding is add insurer Vero Insurance as a respondent, after revealing the cladding manufacturer may have $190 million in insurance to cover the class action’s claims.
A senior ACCC officer has been grilled on whether staff training on criminal cartel investigations was āinadequateā while the competition regulator ran a cartel probe into ANZās $2.5 billion share placement in 2016.
The ACCC has been accused of running a “experimental test case” that tries to fit the shares market within the scope of the Competition and Consumer Act with its criminal cartel case against Citigroup, Deutsche Bank and several prominent banking executives over a $2.5 billion ANZ share placement.