A judge overseeing a shareholder class action against GetSwift has said the settlement and company itself have “collapsed” after the logistics business went into liquidation and failed to make the last of the upfront payments due under the deal’s $1.5 million cash component.
Car dealers bringing a $650 million lawsuit against Mercedes over its decision to move to a fixed-price agency model have won access to board meeting minutes and related correspondence sent to the company’s top brass.
AMP has admitted ASIC’s allegations that it acted unconscionably in charging life insurance premiums and advice fees to deceased customers, but the wealth manager will go head to head with the regulator over how much it should pay for its contraventions.
Shareholders in a class action against Arrium and KPMG are fighting an $8 million security for costs order sought by former directors of the failed steel giant, who say they should not be forced to defend the case “on a shoestring.”
The director of a money transfer business accused of fixing foreign exchange rates has filed a defence attacking the credibility of the federal prosecutor’s key witness, but his new lawyer says the attack might not be maintained at trial.
A judge has approved a $52 million settlement is six class actions against car makers for allegedly selling cars fitted with deadly Takata airbags, under which individuals group members will get around $600 after $31.7 million in expenses is deducted.
The Hawthorn Football Club faces a lawsuit brought by a former account executive who alleges she was forced to resign after being sidelined since a workplace panic attack.
Opposition leader Peter Dutton has questioned a costs agreement between refugee activist Shane Bazzi and his solicitors in a defamation dispute, raising the possibility that “sham bills” may have been provided to the court to assess the costs to which Bazzi is entitled for his successful appeal.
Google has agreed to pay a $60 million penalty in proceedings brought by the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission alleging the tech giant misled users about the collection and use of their location data.
Dozens of provisions in Fujifilm’s contracts with thousands of small businesses are unfair and unenforceable, a court declared Friday in a case against the office supply company by the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission.