Pest control company Rentokil has won an urgent bid to freeze its former supply manager’s assets after he allegedly stole $3.2 million from the company by creating false invoices on his work laptop.
Gina Rinehart’s Hancock Prospecting has failed to persuade a court to hold an expanded separate trial on the alleged wrongdoing of the mining magnate in a spat over the Hope Downs iron ore mine, with a judge finding the proposal could extend the already ten-year legal battle.
The lead applicant in a class action against Volkswagen over defective Takata airbags has been hit with indemnity costs for his failed case after a NSW Supreme Court judge found that deficiencies in aspects of the case were “manifestly clear”.
Commonwealth Bank of Australia unit Colonial First State Investments is facing penalties after the Federal Court found it misled its customers about their rights and obligations relating to the MySuper reforms passed by the federal government in 2012.
Lockdown orders by the Victorian government and an international travel ban in place last year during the first wave of COVID-19 did not trigger a business interruption clause in an IAG policy at the centre of a test case brought by insurers, a judge heard Monday.
A subsidiary of Indian conglomerate Adani Group has successfully overturned a $106 million judgment against it over access charges for its Abbot Point coal terminal.
The applicant in a class action against Volkswagen over defective Takata airbags has appealed a ruling dismissing the case for failing to establish any loss or damage.
Four Victorian hospital operators have been ordered not to talk with or propose settlements with junior doctors that are targeted in three class actions accusing them of failing to pay junior doctors for overtime hours worked.
A Daily Mail editor sent an email to a journalist that said ‘Let’s rip into this sheila’ before publishing an article about sports presenter Erin Molan that’s at the centre of a defamation trial which kicked off Monday.
The Commonwealth Bank of Australia has slammed an attempt by a class action to “trawl through” its Chief Executive Officer’s emails in search of correspondence regarding it decision to rebate commissions grandfathered by the Future of Financial Advice reforms.