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Box Hill Institute lied about government approval for subcontract, lawsuit says
Catalyst Training is suing the Box Hill Institute and Centre for Adult Education over a botched subcontracting agreement, which it says the vocational education provider failed to seek government approval for.
ASIC can’t duck case by G8 Education’s ex-chair over alleged unlawful examination
ASIC has lost a bid to dismiss former G8 Education chair Jennifer Hutson's application seeking declarations that she was unlawfully examined by the regulator over the company's $162 million hostile takeover bid for Affinity Education Group.
‘Bad luck’: Judge denies penniless Captain Cook College’s appeal delay bid
A judge has rejected an application by training provider Captain Cook College to postpone the hearing of its appeal in a case won by the ACCC, saying the company's inability to fund the appeal was “largely a problem of [its] own making.”
‘Intimate’ encounter with student no cause for ANU professor’s dismissal, FWC says
A Fair Work commissioner who previously slammed vaccine mandates as "medical apartheid" has found that an Australian National University professor was unfairly fired over a 30-minute "intimate" beach encounter with a student.
Careers Australia liquidator can pursue overseas directors on evidence of insolvent trading
The liquidator of collapsed vocational education provider Careers Australia can serve its lawsuit on two of the company’s former directors now living overseas, after a judge found a prima facie case of insolvent trading and breaches of directors duties had been made out.
Careers Australia directors face insolvent trading case over $40M dividend
The liquidator of collapsed vocational education provider Careers Australia has filed a lawsuit against the company’s former directors, including founding CEO of Optus Robert Mansfield, seeking damages for alleged insolvent trading and breach of directors’ duties over a $40 million dividend the company allegedly could not afford.
UniLodge targeted in underpayments class action investigation
Unilodge Australia faces a potential class action alleging the student housing agency shortchanged staff by paying them under the wrong award.
Training college AIPE hit with record $153M penalty for ‘unconscionable’ enrolment system
Collapsed NSW training company Australian Institute of Professional Education has been slugged with a $153 million penalty, the highest ever fine in a consumer law case, after the Federal Court found the school targeted vulnerable students through an "unconscionable" enrolment system.
Judge makes first class action order giving law firm cut of proceeds
Saying the funding arrangement would eliminate the possibility that legal costs ate up the majority of any return to group members, a judge overseeing a shareholder case against G8 Education has issued the first ever group costs order in a class action.
Judge weighs exemption from Victoria’s COVID-19 vaccine mandate for 134 workers
A group of 134 workers in healthcare, education and construction have argued a judge should grant them a temporary exemption from Victoria's direction mandating essential employees be vaccinated against COVID-19 to work outside their homes.