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A Marshall Islands-based binary options trader has been hit with a $1.8 million penalty after a judge found it engaged in the "deliberate deception of vulnerable people".
Labour hire company WorkPac has asked the High Court to weigh in on a decision that grants entitlements to casual workers with regular shifts, a ruling it says could have a "devastating impact" on companies if allowed to stand.
More law firms may soon be targeted in a lawsuit brought by defunct financial advisor Dover Financial alleging three law firms provided negligent advice concerning an inaptly titled 'client protection policy', which a judge recently found was "highly misleading" and "an exercise in Orwellian doublespeak".
A prominent Australian cancer researcher is suing the University of Technology Sydney for $744,000, alleging she was unfairly sacked after taking multiple periods of leave due to a physical disability.
A judge has warned AUSTRAC that it needs to finalise its case against Westpac over anti-money laundering breaches as the regulator readies a slew of new claims, quashing any hopes of a trial this year.
The Chief Justice of the NSW Supreme Court told Lawyerly the court will adopt a flexible mixture of virtual and in-person hearings in the long term, as courts and the country slowly awaken from COVID-19 lockdown.
A judge has rejected a bid by the CFMEU to pause a trial brought by two sacked union officials while the court gives the country's attorneys-general a chance to intervene over constitutional arguments raised, saying the union's barrister was wrong that the issues in the case could not be split up.
GetSwift "sat on" an announcement about a lucrative deal with US-based automotive sales and marketing firm N.A. Williams for more than three weeks, then leaked the news to the media before announcing it on the Australian Stock Exchange, ASIC has told the Federal Court on day two of a trial in the corporate regulator's case against the logistics tech company.
A judge has been accused of “very aggressively” raising issues with a barrister for the Federal Government over its failure to amend its defence in a $300 million class action centred on the Commonwealth's controversial Robodebt scheme to match recent public admissions.
Tens of thousands of Ford cars which contain an allegedly defective transmission system are “lemons”, a court heard on day one of a six-week hearing in a long-running class action against the car maker.