Netgear will provide refunds after misleading customers about remedies available to them on purchasing faulty products, another win for the ACCC even as the consumer regulator fights a recent court ruling over the extent of companies’ remedy disclosure obligations.
The Bank of Queensland has reached a settlement close to trial in a class action brought by investors in a multi-million dollar Ponzi scheme masterminded by jailed scammer Bradley Sherwin.
Australia’s biggest media companies want to lend their weight to an appeal by Bauer Media of a historic $4.5 million award handed to actor Rebel Wilson last year in a defamation case.
The High Court of Australia will tackle the question of whether injured plaintiffs in tort cases are entitled to damages for the future loss of superannuation and the age pension.
In a win for aviation services company Aerocare, a court on Friday ruled the company’s bid for review of its controversial split-shift rosters was not an abuse of process as two unions had argued.
Westpac was responsible for the conduct of its in-house financial planner, who allegedly overcharged the bank’s own customers with excess premiums on life insurance, class action lawyers have told a court.
The Commonwealth Bank of Australia on Friday pushed back against the majority of expanded claims brought by the anti-money laundering regulator and denied all allegations in the related class action.
IP Australia has denied Google’s application for approval of a patent covering advertising price discounting, saying it was not a manner of manufacture and therefore not patentable.
The Australian Patent Office has shot down a patent application covering throat lozenges by consumer goods giant Reckitt-Benckiser on a challenge by rival Sanofi-Aventis.
Squire Patton Boggs has brought a shareholder class action worth potentially $300 million against logistics software company GetSwift and its director, former AFL player Joel MacDonald, for providing inadequate disclosures and misleading investors with “overhyped” announcements about business contracts.