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Delta Building appeals $1.5M fine in National Gallery bid rigging case
Appeals 2024-07-04 12:07 pm By Cat Fredenburgh

Industrial technology company Delta Building Automation has appealed a $1.5 million penalty for attempting to rig a bid for construction work on the National Gallery of Australia, a penalty five times the amount it claimed it should face.

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PwC to pay $8.25M to settle class action over bond prospectus
Class Actions 2024-07-03 11:30 pm By Cat Fredenburgh

PricewaterhouseCoopers has agreed to pay $8.25 million to settle a class action on behalf of Axsesstoday bondholders over an allegedly misleading bond prospectus, bringing the settlement total to $9.5 million after a group of insurers agreed to pay $1 million to settle the class action’s claims.

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Nine fights Westpac’s bid to block media from reporting on ex-head of strategy’s case
Employment 2024-07-03 11:44 pm By Christine Caulfield

The Federal Court must guard against “exceptions by accretion” when weighing Westpac’s application to prevent the public from accessing documents filed in a lawsuit by the bank’s former head of strategy, which has resolved in a confidential settlement, a judge heard Wednesday.

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‘Contrary to commercial reality’: Google takes aim at Epic Games’ competition case
Trials 2024-07-02 11:47 pm By Sam Matthews

Google has slammed Fortnite game maker Epic Games’ landmark competition case against it as “contrary to commercial reality”, saying its competition with rival tech giant Apple means it is no monopolist.

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Kraken crypto exchange operator denies it offered credit facility
Cryptocurrency 2024-07-01 11:22 pm By Sam Matthews

The Australian provider of the Kraken crypto exchange has told a court that its margin trading product is not a credit facility, rejecting the corporate regulator’s “overly broad” definition of the word ‘credit’. 

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Westpac settles suppressed case by former exec, wants court docket to stay top secret
Opinion 2024-07-01 11:15 pm By Christine Caulfield

Despite arguing for suppression as a means only to successful mediation, Westpac now wants a settled employment case brought by an executive kept under lock and key. And in a worrying sign the Federal Court may have lost sight of the importance of open justice, a judge has indicated she would entertain an order that the suit never see the light of day.

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Racial discrimination class action against NT Government to be dropped
Class Actions 2024-07-01 11:12 pm By Cindy Cameronne

The lead applicants are seeking to drop a class action against the Northern Territory government over its alleged failure to properly fund essential health services and interpreting services in remote Indigenous communities.

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‘Extreme’ unfairness: Former NAAJA chief executive wins unfair dismissal case
Employment 2024-07-01 11:35 pm By Cindy Cameronne

The former chief executive officer of the North Australian Aboriginal Justice Agency has won her case alleging she was unfairly dismissed after complaining about the CFO, with a judge finding there was “extreme” unfairness in the decision to terminate.

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Axsesstoday investor class action reaches settlement with PwC
Class Actions 2024-06-28 1:10 pm By Cindy Cameronne

A class action on behalf of Axsesstoday bondholders has reached a settlement with accountants PricewaterhouseCoopers, with a court hearing that group members will get almost 50 per cent of the proceeds. 

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Apple decries Epic Games’ attempted ‘freeriding’ in competition case over lucrative app stores
Trials 2024-06-28 11:48 pm By Sam Matthews

In a landmark competition case, Apple has told the Federal Court that Epic Games and other developers should not be allowed to “freeride” on the resources and user base the tech giant has “spent many billions” to develop. 

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