The Australian Securities and Investments Commission says beleaguered investment group Mayfair 101 should pay a $12 million penalty after a judge found the company misled investors about its financial products.
The founder of embattled investment group Mayfair 101, James Mawhinney, has said he received legal advice approving the companyâs advertising of financial products that a court has found misled investors.
Logistics company GetSwift’s settlement of a shareholder class action will see group members share in $1.5 million cash plus access to further funds and revenue raised by the company over a three-year period.
The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission says it should be given more power to regulate the $9.5 billion advertising technology sector, after a report revealed Googleâs overwhelming dominance could lead to consumers paying more for advertised goods.
Prosecutors have told a court they are nearing deals with a number of individuals accused of criminal charges in its cartel case against Vina Money Transfer.
Personal lender ClearLoans has lost its bid to strike out claims in ASICâs first case related to the COVID-19 pandemic after a judge found the regulatorâs action, which accuses the lender of breaching the hardship provisions of the credit laws, was âsufficiently clearâ.
A judge hearing a price-fixing case against steel giant BlueScope has overruled an objection to the ACCCs barrister’s allegedly excessive “eye-rolling” and “scathing and sarcastic” manner during a cross-examination in which the company’s general manager was accused of lying under oath.
A judge has rejected a request for further information on ‘very senior’ Google employees involved in a notification related to a change to Google’s privacy policy which at the centre of court proceedings brought by the ACCC.
The Federal Court’s decision that artificial intelligence can be listed on a patent application as the inventor has become an outlier, as the UK joins the US in rejecting what has become an international battle to claim AI inventorship.
New requirements that funded class actions be run as managed investment schemes will throw up myriad new questions for the courts, with lawyers predicting novel challenges by defendants and group members and an altered landscape for competing class actions.