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The applicant in a class action against self-managed superfund provider Dixon Advisory wants to intervene in ASIC's proceedings, which the company agreed to resolve for $7.2 million, saying any penalty in the case should be held by the court until the resolution of the class action.
A former partner at accounting firm Pitcher Partners has told a court that he had issues working with Ernst & Young on an audit of law firm Slater & Gordon, calling the Big 4 firm "uncooperative".
Clyde & Co made an “inextricable” oversight in preparing an unpaid works claim, causing a Sydney-based sandstone excavator to lose millions of dollars, according to a cross claim in a case brought by the law firm for unpaid fees.
A judge has declined a contradictor's calls to send an application for a common fund order in a class action against 7-Eleven, which recently settled for $98 million, to the Full Court.
A judge has scolded Slater & Gordon and two Westpac subsidiaries for a "disgraceful" privilege spat in a class action over allegedly excessive superannuation fees that he said had "gone badly off the rails".
A judge has indicated he will approve the 'very low' GetSwift class action settlement because the company appeared to be broke, but the law firm behind the case has been pulled up by the court for a previous costs estimate that has blown out by $3 million.
Five years into a preliminary discovery application for a potential patent infringement lawsuit over a biosimilar of its Enbrel medication, Pfizer has partially succeeded in obtaining further documents from Samsung Bioepis.
A judge has thrown out a lawsuit that argued the funding for a class action against two Queensland energy generators didn't comply with new regulations targeting litigation funders, and said a landmark judgment that held class action funding agreements were managed investment schemes was conceptually incoherent and ripe for a Full Court challenge.
A judge has knocked back Colonial First State’s bid to warn around 100,000 group members that even if they opt out of a class action against the wealth management firm they might still be bound by the outcome of the case.
A former partner at accounting firm Pitcher Partners has testified during a shareholder class action trial that he should have questioned statements about the viability of Slater & Gordon’s $1.2 billion Quindell acquisition, but ran out of time because its audit of the firm went “off the rails”.