Law Firms

ASIC has won winding up orders against investment firm Falcon Capital and its managed investment scheme First Guardian Master Fund, after raising concerns about potential risks to investors. 

Bupa has been hit with a class action alleging it violated consumer laws by providing poor-quality care to residents at aged care facilities.

An automotive law expert has joined Moray & Agnew as a partner in the firm's corporate and commercial practice.

A judge has given the Victorian unit of Roberts Co more time to put forward a deed of company arrangement that would save the builder from liquidation, noting liquidation could imperil its projects and subcontractors, who could not bring claims under the SOP Act if it was insolvent. 

The engineering company behind the world-first Kwinana energy transformation hub in WA has lost a bid to strike out fraud claims from a case by the CFMEU over an enterprise agreement covering maintenance workers.

A franchisee class action against United Petroleum over alleged loss-making Pie Face stores has been ordered to hand over $3.7 million in security, with a judge finding it was not likely to stultify the class action.

Brokerage firm International Capital Markets says a class action over risky financial products must put up or shut up when it comes to claims in the case that neither applicant has standing to bring.

Clorox has been hit with a $8.25 million penalty for representing to consumers that certain GLAD garbage bags were sourced from plastic fished from the ocean.

That it once had a $100,000 bank cheque is not sufficient evidence to prove a funder behind a class action over the $16 billion WestConnex tunnel can meet a costs order in a feud with the applicants, an appeals court has said.