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.
Émails show the directors of logistics company GetSwift took a “deliberate approach” to inflating the company’s share price through a constant supply of positive ASX announcements about new multimillion-dollar contracts, ASIC said on the first day of a highly anticipated five-week trial.
The Full Federal Court has thrown out the ACCC’s challenge to a ruling dismissing its case alleging Kimberly-Clark made misleading representations about its flushable wipes.
A judge has rejected calls by mining tool company Globaltech and driller Boart Longyear to disqualify himself from hearing a patent infringement case against them, despite ruling in an earlier proceeding that the patent was valid and that Globaltech had infringed it.
Westpac is facing the possibility of more claims in proceedings brought by AUSTRAC over anti-money laundering breaches, with the regulator seeking information on 272 customers who may have been involved in the exploitation of children.
The former general manager of women’s fashion retailer Rockmans is suing parent company Noni B, claiming he was not given any notice before being sacked in April this year.
The funder backing a patent lawsuit by tech firm Vehicle Management Systems over an invention used by the City of Melbourne to time parked vehicles has been granted extended access to discovered documents in the proceedings.
To avoid a creditor panic in the midst of the COVID-19 health crisis, the NSW Supreme Court has appointed a receiver instead of a liquidator to a rural hotel that is the centre of a deadlocked shareholder dispute over more than $2.7 million.
A leading workplace law firm has launched a landmark test case against a Victorian finance company and its CEO, alleging that they unlawfully slashed an employee’s salary by 80 per cent under the guise of the coronavirus pandemic.
A class action brought against three medical device manufacturers and a disgraced former doctor on behalf of thousands of women who claim to have suffered lifelong complications from pelvic mesh implants is seeking to add the doctor’s medical insurance company to the proceedings.