Judgments shooting down a class closure order and nixing notice of a possible class closure order were “plainly wrong” and “infected” by faulty reasoning, the Full Federal Court has heard.
Logistics company GetSwift will argue on appeal that a judge who found the company took a “PR-driven approach” to ASX statements was wrong in his assessment of whether those statements contained material omissions.
A second class action investigation against regenerative medicine company Mesoblast is underway, this one looking at claim it misled shareholders about the potential application of a developmental stem cell product to treat terminally-ill children.
Philanthropist and Wotif founder Graeme Wood will have to pay more than $15 million after the Victoria Supreme Court found one of his companies had breached an agreement to act as guarantor for the $73 million sale of a Queensland aquaculture business.
A funder that’s helping foot the bill in a class action against Arrium’s former directors and KPMG may withdraw support if the law firm that’s running it is not granted an order awarding it 40 per cent of any award or settlement.
Virgin Australia is facing a shareholder class action investigation over representations made in a 2019 prospectus for a capital raising to fund its $700 million acquisition of the Velocity loyalty program, issued six months before the airline filed for administration.
Logistics company GetSwift and its directors are appealing a win for ASIC in the regulator’s case that alleged they breached their continuous disclosure obligations and engaged in misleading and deceptive conduct in the release of 22 ASX announcements.
BHP Group has been granted special leave from the High Court to appeal a ruling that rejected its bid to exclude foreign investors from a shareholder class action over the 2015 Fundao dam disaster.
A new funder is backing a shareholder class action that will be brought against Australian regenerative medicine company Mesoblast over disclosures related to its Remestemcel-L treatment for COVID-19 complications.
A settlement in a shareholder class action against GetSwift has collapsed as the logistics company seeks to secure financing to keep it afloat and pay the final portion of the deal’s $1.5 million cash component.