Law Firms

The liquidators of a subsidiary of collapsed media company Big Un have lost their case against financier First Class Capital alleging a three million share purchase was part of a scheme to inflate the company's stock price. 

Westpac's former home lending business RAMS will pay $29.6 million to resolve a class action over the termination of agreements with franchisees.

Crown Resorts has taken its excess insurer to court after being denied coverage for part of a $72.5 million shareholder class action settlement not covered by its primary insurer. 

Non-bank lender Humm Group has been hit with Fair Work proceedings by its former CEO Stuart Grimshaw. 

Two witnesses in a trial over $19.5 million in funds allegedly misappropriated in a land development joint venture will be cross-examined again after a judge recused himself from the trial after eight hearing days. 

Property developer Villawood has asked a judge to allow it to share documents from a fraud case against its former director with the Australian Federal Police, over alleged actions the judge called “deeply troubling”. 

The Australian Centre for International Commercial Arbitration wants to make submissions in a High Court challenge to an arbitration ruling in a dispute with Esso over Bass Strait hydrocarbon royalties.

A tribunal has found that Apple indirectly discriminated against a disabled employee by requiring him to use a regular bathroom, ordering the company to pay him $18,000.

Coles says it should be allowed to file further expert evidence in its stoush with the ACCC over plans to build a supermarket in Kalgoorlie, WA, claiming the regulator failed to give it notice about its "novel" theory of harm.

The corporate cop is calling for a $10.5 million penalty against Sunshine Loans in its unauthorised fees case, saying the payday lender's approach to the enforcement action was an example of "scorched earth" litigation.