The Commonwealth Bank has paid $792,000 in penalties after the consumer watchdog found it had failed to enable data sharing for certain business customers.
A judge has refused a bid by several KFC franchise owners to send a notice encouraging group members register for an underpayments class action prior to mediation, which the applicant argued would “blow up” settlement talks.
CIP Group can subpoena Queensland Police, with a judge finding the timing of an ex-business partner’s complaints to police may be material to a change of tack in CIP’s $30 million suit over a residential development.
Solar developer Green Gold Energy has lost its bid to bifurcate an upcoming trial in its case accusing competitor Trina Solar of misusing its confidential information, with a judge citing the risks of a retrial.
Retirement village operator Lifestyle Communities will offer a new fee model to existing homeowners following an appeal of a ruling in July that its exit fees were unenforceable.
IG Energy and former subsidiary IG Power — now owned by Czech investment firm Sev.en — are fighting over a $3.5 million surplus from the administration of IG’s interest in the Callide Power Station in Queensland.
Developer Mirvac has been picked to transform the old Sydney Fish Market site, beating out Lendlease and Stockland Urban as the Infrastructure NSW’s preferred bidder.
Monash University will pay thousands of underpaid staff across its 10 campuses more than $20.7 million in wages, interest and superannuation.
A judge has issued an injunction against actress and director Rebel Wilson, partially blocking her cross-claim in US defamation proceedings launched by producers of her film, ‘The Deb’.
Woolworths is under siege by lawyers, with the supermarket giant facing another class action following findings that put it on the hook for hundreds of millions of dollars in staff compensation.