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Appeal fails in attempted bid-rigging case over National Gallery tender
Appeals 2025-08-29 1:46 pm By Christine Caulfield

Industrial technology company Delta Building Automation has lost its fight over a finding that it attempted to rig a bid for construction work on the National Gallery of Australia and must pay a $1.5 million penalty.

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Dyno Nobel appeals loss in explosives patent spat with Orica
Intellectual Property 2025-08-29 11:20 pm By Christine Caulfield

Explosives company Dyno Nobel is appealing a court’s dismissal of its case seeking to invalidate patents owned by rival Orica for a wireless detonation device.

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Law firm investigates ‘loyalty tax’ class action against Suncorp
Class Actions 2025-08-28 1:36 pm By Christine Caulfield

Insurance giant Suncorp faces a class action investigation on behalf of millions of home and car insurance customers who were allegedly misled about their premiums and charged a so-called loyalty tax.

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Westpac’s $130M settlement in flex commissions class action approved
Financial Services 2025-08-28 2:52 pm By Christine Caulfield

A judge has signed off on Westpac’s $130 million settlement in a class action over flexible commissions paid to car dealers, bringing to an end three cases brought by Maurice Blackburn against lenders.

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Piper Alderman appeals loss in fight to run Google ad tech class action
Competition & Consumer Protection 2025-08-27 11:18 pm By Christine Caulfield

Piper Alderman is appealing a decision that stayed its competition class action against Google in favour of a competing case, saying group members had been deprived of a “substantially superior” funding model.

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Judge quashes $2M default judgment against Vansan Construction boss
Construction 2025-08-28 11:30 pm By Christine Caulfield

The CEO of Melbourne builder Vansan Construction has persuaded a court to quash a $2 million default judgment won by SK Developments.

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TerraCom hit with $7.5M penalty in ASIC whistleblower case
ASIC 2025-08-27 11:55 pm By Christine Caulfield

A judge has hit coal producer TerraCom with a $7.5 million penalty in ASIC proceedings alleging it made misleading statements to the market that damaged a whistleblower’s reputation. 

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Special Gold’s prospects in case against Dyldam payment intermediaries ‘manifestly weak’: judge
Construction 2025-08-27 11:57 pm By Christine Caulfield

A judge has hit Dyldam Developments’ former boss Sam Fayad and his two sons with costs after ordering them to pay $50 million in a case by the liquidator of a special purpose vehicle, but awarded costs to payment intermediaries for the liquidator’s “manifestly weak” case against them. 

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ASIC takes Equity Trustees to court over Keystone’s defunct Shield fund
Financial Services 2025-08-26 1:11 pm By Christine Caulfield

The corporate regulator has brought its first action targeting a superannuation trustee as part of a wide-ranging investigation to claw back $480 million pumped into Keystone’s failed Shield Master Fund.

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Fonterra, Bega settle row over licences in wake of $3.8B sale to Lactalis
Intellectual Property 2025-08-26 2:05 pm By Christine Caulfield

Fonterra said Tuesday it had settled a dispute with Bega Cheese over the status of lucrative licence agreements as part of a $3.8 billion sale of its Australian business to French dairy company Lactalis.

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