The High Court has thrown out laws that banned unions and other third parties from spending more than $20,000 on political campaigns ahead of a New South Wales state election in March.
The Australian Securities and Investments Commission’s has detailed its enforcement priorities for 2023, which include a continued focus on predatory lending, crypto-assets and greenwashing.
The High Court killed off all common fund orders, not just the kind sought at the start of a class action, a judge has said as he cut in half the payout for a litigation funder bankrolling two franchisee class actions against 7-Eleven.
A judge has blessed a law firm’s $16.6 million legal bill for running two franchisee class actions against 7-Eleven despite a contradictor’s argument that it had a “troubling” practice of deferring its fees to benefit the funder that bankrolled the cases.
The former CEO of Big Un Limited has been hit with criminal charges and could face up to ten years in prison after he allegedly communicated inside information about the failed video company.
An anti-lockdown protester has lost her appeal of a decision dismissing her legal challenge to Victoria’s stay-at-home orders, with an appeals court finding the reduction in risk to public health “outweighed” impacts on freedom of speech.
The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has handed a permanent ban to a former financial advisor who pleaded guilty to taking $35,000 from his First Nations clients’ superannuation accounts.
International law firm Dentons has lured the principal of IPH Limited, which owns leading intellectual property firms including Griffith Hack and Spruson & Ferguson, for its Australasian patents team.
Mining investor Tolga Kumova has won an order banning the man behind the Twitter handle Stock Swami from publishing allegations concerning the his past actions after a judge found he was defamed by tweets accusing him of insider trading.
Stock broker Fortrend Securities has secured an order prohibiting two former advisors from contacting their old clients while they litigate a dispute alleging the advisors conspired with Shaw & Partners to poach customers.