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The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission has won a challenge to a ruling that tossed its case against specialist workplace relations company Employsure, with an appeals court finding the regulator was right that the company had misled small businesses into signing long term contracts via Google ads that appeared to be government affiliated.
A leading Sydney silk who has appeared for the prosecution in a high-profile criminal cartel case over a $2.5 billion ANZ share placement is set to become New South Wales’ first woman to serve as Director of Public Prosecutions.
A former tenured professor is seeking $2 million from the University of New South Wales, alleging she was terminated after making complaints about discrimination, bullying and misuse of her intellectual property.
Multinational health technology company Philips may be hit with a class action after its sleep therapy machines were subject to an urgent safety recall over concerns customers could inhale degrading foam.
An Adelaide lawyer who won a long-running defamation battle over a Today Tonight story that described her as a “Centrelink cheat” has lost her bid for a bigger payout after a court found there was no misapprehension of fact or law in its determination of damages.
ABC reporter Louise Milligan has agreed to pay $79,000 to settle a defamation case by Liberal party MP Andrew Laming over what he called spiteful and accusatory tweets, but the agreement does not include an admission of liability, a court heard on Wednesday.
A high roller with a severe gambling addiction has taken Crown Melbourne to court, alleging the casino’s “predatory” practices caused him to lose more than $4.5 million over three and a half years.
Controversial legislation advanced by the Morrison government that will weaken the country's continuous disclosure laws and make it harder to bring shareholder class actions has cleared the Senate.
A high-energy trade mark dispute has gone to the Federal Court after the maker of Mother energy drinks lost its bid before IP Australia to prevent a Victoria-based company from registering Kangaroo Mother as a trade mark for beverages.
The applicant in a shareholder class action against IOOF wants to add ten new misconduct allegations, including that a relative of a former executive made $69,000 by offloading shares.