Auditing firm Pitcher Partners has filed its defence in a class action accusing it of wrongly signing off on Slater & Gordon’s financial reports, denying responsibility for alleged material misstatements that investors say they relied on to their detriment.
The Transport Worker’s Union of Australia is challenging a $270,000 fine in a case brought by the union monitor alleging it kept almost 21,000 lapsed members on its register and failed to keep copies of records.
The Bank of Queensland has reached a settlement close to trial in a class action brought by investors in a multi-million dollar Ponzi scheme masterminded by jailed scammer Bradley Sherwin.
Australian company Vittoria Food & Beverage has won its challenge to a patent application for a coffee pod system filed by a unit of global food giant Mondelez International.
It might be in the glare of a government inquiry, but business is booming for Australian litigation backer IMF Bentham, which values its current caseload at $4.7 billion.
In a win for aviation services company Aerocare, a court on Friday ruled the company’s bid for review of its controversial split-shift rosters was not an abuse of process as two unions had argued.
Westpac was responsible for the conduct of its in-house financial planner, who allegedly overcharged the bank’s own customers with excess premiums on life insurance, class action lawyers have told a court.
A judge has rejected Amaca’s bid for indemnity costs in a case over contributions to an asbestos class action settlement, but he did not rule on the company’s novel argument that a settlement resulting from mediation could count as the outcome of litigation in awarding costs.
The Commonwealth Bank of Australia on Friday pushed back against the majority of expanded claims brought by the anti-money laundering regulator and denied all allegations in the related class action.
A group of Linfox workers in Victoria has lost their bid to put a Fair Work appeal on ice while they challenge a commissioner’s ruling that found in favor of the logistics giant in a dispute over their jobs.