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Payments processing company EML is the target of a shareholder class action investigation over its alleged failure to timely alert the market to concerns about its money laundering risk and control systems.
Accused war criminal Ben Roberts-Smith has brought legal action against his ex-wife, who is set to give evidence for Nine at the upcoming trial in his defamation case against the publisher.
A Victoria Supreme Court judge weighing for the first time an application by a law firm for a percentage cut of recoveries in class actions has been told to reject the bid because group members would fare better under the firm's current no win, no fee funding arrangement.
Payments provider Tyro is facing two potential class actions over a days-long terminal outage that left many businesses unable to accept payments, the first of which is expected to be filed "imminently".
When Johnson Winter & Slattery’s George Croft is asked what he loves about working for clients in the energy and resources sectors, the tangible nature of the field with its deep rumbling ore crushers and haulage trains kilometres long really brings out his excitement.
Failed vocational education provider Phoenix Institute has taken three of its former directors to court claiming they breached the Corporations Act in the lead-up to its collapse and should compensate the company.
Engineering giant UGL will file proceedings against two unions seeking to block them from funding an underpayments class action on behalf of casual workers, with a judge noting the Full Court may need to weigh in on whether unions can fund class actions.
A judge has given Generic Health more time to file its evidence in a multimillion-dollar dispute with drug makers Otsuka and Bristol-Myers Squibbs over the delayed launch of generic versions of their antipsychotic drug Abilify, but warned there had to be a cut-off point for preparing the decade-long dispute for trial.
Global resources giant BHP Group has lost an appeal in its fight to exclude foreign investors from a shareholder class action over the 2015 Fundao dam disaster, after arguing the class action regime applies only to those in Australia.
A refugee activist has hit back at a defamation lawsuit brought by Peter Dutton over a tweet calling the defence minister a “rape apologist”, saying it was fair comment on Dutton’s response to the issue of sexual violence in Australia and offshore detention centres.