Telstra has been ordered to pay $18 million in ACCC proceedings, after a court found the telco misled thousands of broadband customers about the speed of its budget internet provider Belong.
A judge has clarified a warning he made to refer lawyers for Alvarez & Marsal to the legal watchdog after hearing of the hefty costs of complying with discovery orders won by rival EY, saying the threat wasn’t directed at counsel.
Qantas has won a permanent injunction aimed at preventing unknown hackers from disseminating information accessed in a June data breach, with a judge saying the orders have “real utility” despite the hackers being beyond the reach of the court.
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.
The Australian Financial Review has hit back at a defamation suit by the owner of Melbourne jazz venue Bird’s Basement over articles about a former employee’s now-discontinued suit, saying the articles were a fair report of public documents.
Singtel CEO Yuen Kuan Moon has apologised for a 13-hour outage Triple Zero across three states that has been linked to the deaths of three people, blaming the outage on a “people issue”.
ANZ can’t call its former group chief risk officer — now a strategic advisor for Clayton Utz — to give evidence as it defends a whistleblower case by former trader Etienne Alexiou.
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.
Telstra has reached an agreement with the consumer regulator after a court found the telco misled thousands of broadband customers about the speed of its budget internet provider, Belong.
Hostplus has called out Lendlease for encouraging investors to skip a meeting convened by the super fund heavyweight in its bid to boot the real estate manager from the $2 billion APPF Industrial fund.