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The parties in a class action against AMP over changes to its buyer of last resort policy have agreed to a communications protocol making settlement offers and for releases attached to BOLR payments that require exiting financial advisers to waive their claims in the litigation.
PricewaterhouseCoopers won't get a chance to seek summary dismissal of a lawsuit brought by a former company director who claims her notice of termination through DocuSign was invalid and that she was denied entitlements, with a judge saying the former employee had a claim and that the parties needed to "just get on with it".
Freedom Foods and its auditor Deloitte are facing a class action investigation after a bombshell announcement of more than $590 million in write-downs stemming from accounting irregularities stretching back several years.
The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has filed civil penalty proceedings against the Commonwealth Bank of Australia for allegedly saddling consumers with $2.9 million in inflated interest rates on their business overdraft accounts on more than 12,000 occasions.
A $50 million settlement has been reached in a long-running shareholder class action against defunct vocational training company Vocation that also spawned multiple cross-claims against the failed company's auditor PricewaterhouseCoopers, law firm Johnson Winter & Slattery and individual directors.
PricewaterhouseCoopers is seeking to strike out a lawsuit brought by a former director who claims her notice of termination was invalid because it was delivered through DocuSign.
The brother of missing Sydney woman Melissa Caddick is helping police with an investigation into her murder, a court overseeing ASIC's action against the businesswoman was told Friday.
A judge has lashed out at the legal team behind a class action against S&P over allegedly misleading credit ratings for filing hearsay evidence in support of an application to serve the ratings giant overseas, saying that "nobody who is a first year law student" would say the evidence was admissible.
Lawyers behind a class action against AMP over changes to its buyer of last resort policy have told a court the parties can't agree on releases attached to BOLR payments that require exiting financial advisers to waive their claims in the litigation.
A court has ordered Theta Asset Management, a collapsed financial services provider that ran a property investment scheme targeting retirees, to pay a $2 million penalty for issuing defective product disclosure statements.