A judge has expressed doubts over Colonial First State’s plan to pass on part of its duties to the ATO in distributing a $56.3 million settlement secured by customers in a Maurice Blackburn-led class action.
In yet another blow for the embattled wealth manager, the Australian Securities and Investments Commission has suspended Dixon Advisory’s financial services licence.
The applicants in a protracted class action against the Commonwealth Bank of Australia brought by borrowers who claim they were forced to default on their commercial loans have lost a bid to amend their pleadings, six years after the case was filed.
Engineering company Worley is challenging an appeals court ruling that allowed a shareholder class action against it to continue, arguing the Full Court’s finding that opinions which “ought reasonably to have been held” should be disclosed to shareholders would lead to “absurd consequences”.
Almost half of the $3 million in legal costs incurred by former Tennis Australia president Steven Healy in successfully defending against the regulator’s case over the broadcast rights to the Open were for “luxuries of litigation” that he should pay for himself, ASIC has told a court.
Continuing a recent trend in class actions, a judge will appoint a referee to weigh in on Maurice Blackburn’s costs in a $56.3 million settlement in a class action against Colonial First State, but has so far declined to appoint a contradictor.
Law firms accused of “fishing for a case” in a consolidated shareholder class action against Treasury Wine Estates have won access to key financial information in reports to the company’s board, with a registrar finding the material was relevant to the case.
Maurice Blackburn and Slater & Gordon are “fishing for a case” against Treasury Wine Estates, a court has heard during a discovery fight in a consolidated shareholder class action against the Penfolds wine maker.
Five major banks including JPMorgan, Citibank and UBS have denied all wrongdoing in a class action accusing them of entering a cartel agreement to rig foreign exchange rates and argue the claims were brought out of time or are barred by settlements in overseas proceedings.
Colonial First State will pay $56.3 million to settle a class action that accused the wealth management group of delaying the transfer of $3.2 billion in customer funds to low cost MySuper accounts.