The fraud case against Australian basketball great Shane Heal has been withdrawn after prosecutors’ could not get their US-based star witness to testify in time.
A Federal Court judge has given the owner of an ACT-based cleaning company one more week to comply with court orders, after being accused of dragging out a Fair Work case by the United Voice union for almost two years.
A court has sentenced the owner of Cairns-based Trek North Tours to a 12-month jail term in a landmark contempt-of-court action by the Fair Work Ombudsman.
A Sydney-based IT consultant faces multiple charges of insider trading after illegally accessing stock information from a financial publisher, the Australian Securities and Investments Commission said Monday.
The ACCC is considering a report by US-based Oracle into Google’s tracking of Australian Android phone users as part of the regulator’s broader inquiry into digital media.
A Victorian Supreme Court judge has recused himself from proceedings over costs in a construction dispute, after vowing to send transcripts of the case to the state’s legal watchdog.
Take-Two Interactive has won a temporary injunction blocking a gamer from making unauthorised changes to its popular Grand Theft Auto video game.
7-Eleven has lost its bid to use a confidential bulletin sent to class members via WhatsApp as defence evidence in an ongoing franchisee class action, with a judge rejecting the company’s claims the document was no longer shielded by legal professional privilege.
Retail Food Group has been hit with a shareholder class action alleging it failed to make adequate disclosures regarding the financial health of its franchise network.
Telecom giant Optus has come up short in a Federal Court challenge to trademark registration for health services company Optum, with a judge saying the two company’s marks — despite the difference of just one letter — were distinct enough.