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Wealth guru Dominique Grubisa, DG Institute hit with $6M penalty
The ACCC has secured $6 million in penalties against wealth education company DG Institute and its CEO Dominique Grubisa, as well as orders that the company refund $14.7 million in course fees to customers who enrolled in its ‘Master Wealth Control’ program.
Class action against Noumi lays claim to $5M penalty in ASIC case
Noumi has agreed to pay a $5 million penalty for violating its continuous disclosure obligations in a case brought by the corporate regulator, but the applicant in a shareholder class action against the food company says the sum should be reserved to compensate group members. 
Kraken crypto exchange operator denies it offered credit facility
The Australian provider of the Kraken crypto exchange has told a court that its margin trading product is not a credit facility, rejecting the corporate regulator’s “overly broad” definition of the word ‘credit’. 
Privilege ruling in Noumi case could hamper ASIC investigations, regulator says
ASIC has argued a recent ruling that found Noumi waived privilege over a PwC report by providing it to the regulator could dissuade people from voluntarily disclosing information during investigations and cause a “loss of public benefit” if allowed to stand. 
Noumi, ASIC fight ruling that privilege over PwC report waived during probe
Noumi and ASIC are challenging a finding that the food manufacturer waived legal professional privilege over a PricewaterhouseCoopers report commissioned by its lawyers at Ashurst by disclosing the report during an ASIC investigation.
Ramsay Health wins partial injunction against ‘misleading’ union ads
Ramsay Health Care has won a partial interim injunction banning the union representing its nurses from running ads that claim the private hospital operator runs on a staff-to-patient ratio double that of public hospitals.
Judge warns wealth guru Dominique Grubisa to look ‘elsewhere’ in bid to stay ACCC case
Sydney lawyer and wealth guru Dominique Grubisa is challenging a finding in an ACCC case that her seminars made misleading statements and has sought to pause the court action until her appeal is heard, a bid a judge has warned won't be “favourably received” by him.
Noumi can’t keep lid on PwC report in ASIC case
A former director of Noumi has won his challenge to the food manufacturer’s claim for legal professional privilege over a PricewaterhouseCoopers report commissioned by its lawyers at Ashurst, with a judge finding the company waived privilege by disclosing it to Australian Securities and Investments Commission. 
Company run by lawyer and wealth guru Dominique Grubisa made misleading statements: court
In a win for the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission, a court has found Dominique Grubisa's DG Institute made misleading statements to students who paid up to $9,000 to enrol in her property investment and wealth management programs.
‘So what?’ Judge says rate-rigging class action can’t impose views on registration
A judge has ordered soft class closure ahead of mediation in a class action against five major banks over alleged foreign exchange rate-rigging, saying the applicant's subjective view on what will assist mediation should not be imposed on the banks.