Industries

Auditing firm Auditeo is accused of serious failures in the latest action by the corporate regulator over the collapse of the First Guardian investment fund. 

Heidelberg Materials' $1.7 billion acquisition of Maas Group Holdings' construction material unit has been approved by the ACCC provided it sheds three concrete plants and a quarry -- the regulator's first phase 1 review with conditions. 

As Telstra faces scrutiny over this month's nationwide Triple Zero outage, the communications regulator said Thursday it had brought action against Optus over last year's emergency call blackout.

The internet safety watchdog has taking messaging service Telegram to court for allegedly failing to detect and remove pro-terror material from its platform.

A self-represented former director of the defunct Falcon Capital has told a court company he has emails that clear him of claims by ASIC, but the corporate regulator said the documents may contain privileged information.

Testing lab ALS must hand over almost all of a McGrathNicol report into allegedly exaggerated coal testing results, after a judge found last year the company had waived privileged over parts of the report by referring to its findings in an ASX statement.

ASIC will press on with its case against defunct lender Oak Capital alleging the company's business model was designed to avoid consumer protections under the National Credit Code.

A judge has told US-based haircare company Amika, which has accused Kmart and Target of selling knock-off versions of its products, that it must choose between early mediation or going to mediation "fully armed" with discovery.

Monadelphous has won the post-trial reversal of a ruling that excluded some of its evidence in a $2.6 million dispute over alleged corrosion damage to a marine barge.

A Lucent Group vehicle is suing contractor Wolf Construction to stop it from enforcing a $379,000 SOPA ruling for works at a townhouse precinct development at the site of a former abattoir in Northcote, Melbourne.