Cindy Cameronne

A judge has questioned whether an investor in failed Banksia Securities can bring a case against a court-appointed receiver over his support for a class action settlement later found to involve deception by a team of lawyers. 

The receiver for Banksia Securities — the failed lender at the centre of a scandal-ridden class action — has argued a new case accusing him of serious misconduct is vexatious and wants a court to release him from the claims.

A judge has declined a creditor’s bid to wind up Victorian builder Roberts Construction Group, finding that the application relied on a “very modest” debt and involved a solicitor’s email “cast in threatening terms”. 

A judge has allowed a class action over Isuzus that allegedly contained emissions cheat devices to send an opt out notice to group members that includes a warning that if they sell their cars, they may “lose some or all of the money” they could receive in any settlement. 

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has accepted court-enforceable undertakings from Hall Chadwick NSW and three of its auditors after finding the firm’s systems failed to detect breaches of auditor rotation requirements. 

Pharmaceutical giant Johnson & Johnson has denied knowingly selling alleged ineffective medications under its Benadryl, Sudafed and Codral brands, saying research indicated the phenylephrine-containing products worked. 

A judge has ordered the NSW government to pay $93,000 in damages to the lead plaintiff in a class action over police strip searches at music festivals, finding a “conspicuous deficiency” in the training of officers. 

Jayco must spell out its claim that it explained the specific features of its recreational vehicles to customers, as part of its defence to an ACCC case over alleged misleading statements, a judge has said.

Piper Alderman claims a judge erred in finding there was no evidence that an agreement between Maurice Blackburn and Phi Finney McDonald to cooperate in running an ad tech class action against Google was struck for an anti-competitive purpose.

A former contractor at the ASX has alleged the securities exchange was "embarrassed" by governance failures relating to a $200 million technology modernisation program and sought to hide the issues from the Reserve Bank of Australia.