Companies

Qantas has succeeded in attacking claims that it created a workplace that was “hostile to women”, leveled in a former female pilot’s sex discrimination and sexual harassment lawsuit.

Noumi has admitted in a case by ASIC to breaching its continuous disclosure obligations by overstating the value of its inventory and failing to give a true and fair view of the company’s financial position.

A judge who previously described as a "schemozzle" a law firm's attempt to drop a class action over Telstra's COVID-19 vaccine policy has refused a bid to keep secret Clive Palmer's involvement as funder of the aborted litigation.

A Blue Sky director has pointed the finger at auditor Ernst & Young in a class action alleging the collapsed investment firm misled shareholders by misstating its assets under management. 

Boutique law firm William Roberts has lured Omni Bridgeway's former managing director for Asia Pacific to grow its litigation team.

Dell Australia has been ordered to pay a $10 million penalty for making false and misleading representations about the discount prices of add-on computer monitors.

A senior barrister's case alleging Telstra falsely promised he could keep his chambers' phone numbers when switching to the NBN has been discontinued.

A judge has ordered KPMG to turn over its complete audit files for CuDeco in a shareholder class action against the defunct mining company's former company directors and the accounting firm over allegedly misleading statements about the value of ore reserves at CuDeco's Rocklands mines in Queensland.

A PricewaterhouseCoopers partner may launch defamation proceedings against the professional services firm over two press releases which he says falsely linked him to a tax leaks scandal in an attempt to “offer scapegoats” to the public. 

A PricewaterhouseCoopers partner has won his lawsuit against the professional services firm over his forced dismissal, with a judge finding the decision breached a partnership agreement and that the firm had acknowledged the partner did not misuse confidential ATO information.