Industry super funds AustralianSuper and IFM Investors – the consortium behind the interest rate swap at the centre of the corporate watchdog’s insider trading case against Westpac — have asked a judge to shield commercially sensitive information from the public as the high-profile action unfolds.
Ernst & Young has delayed in filing its evidence in a lawsuit by Sydney-based investment firm London City Equities over its auditing of collapsed soda ash maker Penrice after hiring Holding Redlich to replace Allens just a few months before a mediation deadline.
Westpac has argued that ASIC should flesh out its case accusing the banking giant of insider trading before the $16 billion privatisation of electricity provider Ausgrid, saying the regulator has not explained the nature of the alleged inside information.
A unit of coal mining company Futura Resources has failed to convince the Full Federal Court to allow it to register a 2012 coking coal mine investigation conducted in Central Queensland for a research and development tax offset.
Deloitte has failed to set aside a request for documents recording talks with partners about retirement after they turned 62, in a closely watched age discrimination lawsuit challenging the accounting firm’s mandatory retirement policy.
Deloitte is seeking to set aside a subpoena for documents recording chats with partners about retirement after they turned 62, in a closely watched age discrimination lawsuit challenging the accounting firm’s mandatory retirement policy.
A former director of provocative lingerie retailer Honey Birdette has lost a lawsuit against billionaire retail entrepreneur Brett Blundy seeking damages after a relationship breakdown saw her bought out of the firm.
Victorian Labor MP Marlene Kairouz has won an injunction temporarily blocking the Labor Party from bringing branch stacking charges against her.
A partner who hit Deloitte with a $3.8 million age discrimination lawsuit says the accounting giant has been treating him as an “inactive partner” who is on the verge of retiring, including by failing to conduct a performance assessment for the 2021 financial year.
A company run by an AFR Young Rich Lister has been taken to court for allegedly infringing an Indigenous-owned entrepreneurship coaching company’s trade mark.