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Grays hit with $10M penalty for misleading cars listings
Online auction site Grays has been ordered to pay $10 million in penalties after it admitted to making misleading statements in the descriptions of at least 750 cars listed for sale on its website. 
Fortescue accused of ‘extraordinary invasion of privacy’ of start-up trio
Seeking to quash search orders won by metals company Fortescue against former employees who founded a green iron rival, a lawyer for the start-up has said three terabytes of data were indiscriminately copied, including confidential, privileged and irrelevant material.
Fortescue’s private investigators trailed trips to Kmart while spying on ex-employees, court told
Metal mining company Fortescue hired private investigators to spy on former employees who created green iron start-up Element Zero, sifting through their mail, taking photos of their children and following them to Kmart, a court has heard. 
Contingency fees for class action lawyers are allowed, says Full Court
Lawyers are allowed to take a cut from a class action settlement or judgment under a so-called solicitors’ common fund order, the Full Federal Court has ruled, saying they are a permissive use of the court’s power.
Kraken crypto exchange operator denies it offered credit facility
The Australian provider of the Kraken crypto exchange has told a court that its margin trading product is not a credit facility, rejecting the corporate regulator’s “overly broad” definition of the word ‘credit’. 
Fortescue accused of ‘egregious material nondisclosure’ in case against green iron start-up
Start-up Element Zero claims Fortescue did not disclose material information to the court when it obtained search orders in its case alleging "industrial scale misuse" of the mining company's confidential information.
SkyCity hit with $67M penalty in AUSTRAC case
A judge has ordered SkyCity to pay a $67 million penalty in AUSTRAC’s case alleging it allowed $4 billion in suspicious transactions, finding it was an "appropriate" sum, even when compared with the $450 million fine handed to Crown last July.
‘Industrial scale misuse’: Fortescue sues former exec’s green iron start-up Element Zero
Fortescue has brought legal action against start-up Element Zero and three former employees, alleging “industrial scale misuse” of the Western Australian mining company's confidential information.
Medical cannabis distributor wins injunction after suspected hack
Medicinal cannabis company Vitura Health has won its bid for orders restricting the access of a software partner to its IT systems after an alleged hack.
Jaguar class action judge did not ‘become a witness’ in siding with G+T, says Full Court
While it was unfair for a judge to pick Gilbert + Tobin to run a class action against Jaguar Land Rover on the condition that it lower its funding rate, the judge was entitled to consider the law firm’s experience in a similar case against Toyota, an appeals court has said in its reasons.