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A judge has dismissed a defensive bid by ASIC to amend its case against GetSwift mid-trial, instead calling on "common sense" to be injected into the proceeding as the hearing enters its second week.
GetSwift "sat on" an announcement about a lucrative deal with US-based automotive sales and marketing firm N.A. Williams for more than three weeks, then leaked the news to the media before announcing it on the Australian Stock Exchange, ASIC has told the Federal Court on day two of a trial in the corporate regulator's case against the logistics tech company.
Émails show the directors of logistics company GetSwift took a "deliberate approach" to inflating the company's share price through a constant supply of positive ASX announcements about new multimillion-dollar contracts, ASIC said on the first day of a highly anticipated five-week trial.