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‘Fundamental misapprehensions’: Suncorp strikes back at class action over conflicted remuneration
The Suncorp Group unit and directors at the centre of a class action over allegedly conflicted remuneration have slammed the case as "misconceived" and argue it was not validly commenced.
Appeals court finds ‘Diamond Joe’ Gutnick family’s $1 mining deal void
An appeals court has upheld a ruling that found two firms previously run by Joseph "Diamond Joe" Gutnik and his family were insolvent, ending a long-running battle over hundreds of millions of dollars in mining assets.
ACCC ‘contaminated’ key evidence in ANZ criminal cartel investigation, court hears
An investigation by the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission has come under fire by the banks and directors targeted in a criminal case over alleged cartel conduct that claim the regulator "contaminated" key evidence and improperly used material supplied by ASIC.
‘Serious questions’ raised over conduct of lawyers, funder behind Banksia class action, judge says
A judge overseeing a settled class action against failed Banksia Securities has rejected an application to limit a contradictor's investigation of alleged professional misconduct on the part of the legal team and funder behind the case, saying he was satisfied there was a proper basis for the allegations.
‘We have a right to a fair trial’: ANZ criminal cartel defendant slams CDPP’s lack of detail
Lawyers for former Citigroup executive Stephen Roberts have complained that prosecutors have failed to provide a “shred of material” to explain his alleged involvement in a criminal cartel relating to ANZ’s $2.5 billion capital raising, as the defendants fight to grill Crown witnesses before trial.
APRA defends decision to bring failed IOOF case
The prudential regulator is standing by its decision to bring proceedings against IOOF for alleged breaches of superannuation duties, despite criticism that such a "highly litigious regulatory environment" is placing immense pressure on financial services executives.
Judge slams APRA case against IOOF as ‘fundamentally inadequate’ and ‘tenuous in the extreme’
APRA’s purely documentary case against troubled fund manager IOOF has been dismissed by the Federal Court as “unpersuasive”, “fundamentally inadequate” and “tenuous in the extreme”, in another major blow to financial services regulators pursuing action in the wake of the banking royal commission.
Law firm faces class action over Slater & Gordon acquisition advice
An elite Melbourne law firm has become the latest target of Slater & Gordon shareholders whose stock went south after the plaintiffs firm's disastrous $1.2 billion acquisition of UK professional services outfit Quindell, facing a class action alleging it was negligent in its role conducting due diligence for the deal.
MACH Energy settles $20M lawsuit by former director
Mining firm MACH Energy has resolved a lawsuit brought by a former director seeking $20 million in shares allegedly owed under an equity incentive scheme.
Judgment looms for IOOF execs in APRA’s disqualification case
Five IOOF executives will learn their fate this week when a judge rules on a disqualification bid by the prudential regulator, the first judgment to be delivered by a court in a case filed in the wake of last year's scandal-airing banking royal commission.