The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has dropped its criminal investigation of AMP over its fees-for-no-service conduct which was aired during the banking royal commission.
The Northern Territory government has reached a settlement in a class action brought on behalf of NT youth detainees seeking compensation for alleged race discrimination and human rights abuses.
GetSwift has reached an agreement to settle a shareholder class action accusing the logistics company of misleading statements over contracts, avoiding a trial that was set to begin in two months.
The director of the Forum Group companies accused of a $360 million fraud involving at least three major banks can’t return to Australia from Greece because he has COVID-19, his lawyer has told the Federal Court.
Australian streetwear retailer Culture Kings has hit back at a lawsuit by former world boxing champion and self-proclaimed “baddest man on the planet” Mike Tyson, denying allegations that it misled customers by using his image on its t-shirts.
Global mine technology company Minetek is considering a lawsuit against a former employee who may have unlawfully used confidential company information, a court has heard.
IP Australia has appealed a ruling granting drug company Ono Pharmaceutical a patent extension for a cancer immunotherapy drug, calling it an “impermissible gloss” on the Patents Act that is at odds with the law’s purpose.
Cladding manufacturer Fairview Architectural may have $190 million in insurance to cover the claims in a class action over its allegedly combustible cladding products.
When trial begins next month in the ACCC’s cartel case against BlueScope Steel, the parties will all appear by video, with a judge saying “hybrid” hearings – where some parties are in court and others appear by video – were “unsatisfactory”.
Trial in the defamation case by war veteran Ben Roberts-Smith against Nine may face additional delays or be transferred out of Sydney after the NSW Government extended the city’s COVID-19 restrictions by two weeks.