Fortrend Securities breached the Fair Work Act in withholding the bonuses of two financial advisors who jumped to rival Shaw & Partners, a court has ruled.
A judge has hit AustralianSuper with a $27 million penalty for breaching superannuation rules requiring providers to consolidate customer accounts.
A judge has signalled he will approve a $500,000 settlement in an underpayments class action against labour hire company Stellar Personnel, but has grilled the applicant’s law firm over costs.
A court has found that Telstra misled almost 9,000 residential broadband customers about the upload speeds of its budget internet provider Belong.
A class action against Sydney doctor Daniel Lanzer and several of his associates over alleged botched cosmetic surgeries wants to drop its claims against one doctor, but other defendants have taken issue.
Payments processing company EML has won more time to respond to a new pleading in a shareholder class action over its alleged failure to disclose Ireland central bank’s concerns with its anti-money laundering compliance.
An appeals court has found that an unpaid present entitlement to a corporate beneficiary is not a loan under tax law, upending the ATO’s longstanding practice of treating UPEs as part of a trustee’s assessable income.
A judge has order the winding up of a construction company contracted to build a Queensland shopping centre after the builder failed to comply with a statutory demand.
US drug maker Allergan may defend a class action over recalled textured breast implants by arguing its knowledge of the alleged defects was limited by the state of scientific knowledge at the time the products were made.
A bid by Banksia Securities’ special purpose receiver to thwart planned proceedings by a group of debenture holders against lawyers for the class action funder has failed.