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Describing as "preposterous" the prospect of running a six-week trial in a class action against Crown Resorts from her kitchen table with three children at home, the Melbourne-based barrister for the lead applicant is again urging the Federal Court to declare the case a priority matter.
Eyewear retailer Oscar Wylee has been fined $3.5 million for its misleading 'Buy a pair, Give a pair' promotion, with a judge calling the representations "brazen" and "plainly deceitful".
A maritime development company has had its discovery hopes dashed in its stayed competition lawsuit against NSW Ports, with a judge finding that the company would not suffer any injustice in waiting until the stay is lifted after a similar case brought by the competition regulator is heard.
A judge has ordered 17 companies connected to Mayfair's "failed" IPO Wealth Fund to be wound up after finding the fund's director put investor money at risk through "highly speculative" investments to make a windfall for himself.
Three former Macquarie Bank financial advisors who claim the bank underpaid them have successfully appealed a decision ordering them to hand over personal tax assessments, with an appeals court finding that the most the bank could make of the documents was to “inflict a degree of embarrassment” on its ex-employees.
A former general manager suing law firm Atanaskovic Hartnell has amended her pleadings as trial in her case resumes Friday, expanding her claims and including details of an email in which the firm's managing partner allegedly slammed her practice of billing clients on a "menstrual based cycle".
Companies associated with Mayfair's IPO Wealth Fund should be wound up because they contained assets "artificially inflated" in value and ran what was effectively a Ponzi scheme, the Victoria Supreme Court has heard.
Common fund orders are again under scrutiny in a class action which was at the centre of the High Court’s decision to strike down the orders, with a NSW Supreme Court judge sending back to the appeals court the question of whether the orders can be made at settlement.
The ACCC has asked a court to impose a $3.5 million penalty against eyewear retailer Oscar Wylee for making misleading representations about its charitable donations and affiliations, including that it would donate one pair of eyeglasses to charity for every pair purchased.
The director of besieged investment group Mayfair 101 has called for an investigation into the Australian Securities and Investments Commission, calling a winding up proceeding brought by the financial watchdog "a form of malicious prosecution" based on a "flawed fundamental misunderstanding" and supported by an erroneous report from auditor Deloitte.