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A former director of three construction companies that collapsed with debts of almost $94 million has been banned by the corporate watchdog from managing corporations for five years.

The Finance Sector Union has taken Commonwealth Bank to the Fair Work Commission over the alleged "sham redundancy” of over 100 positions it says are being offshored to India in breach of an enterprise agreement.

Casino operator Crown has agreed to pay $73 million over two years to settle a shareholder class action accusing it of lax money laundering compliance, with solicitors set to take home $20 million.

A barrister who won a defamation case against Nine over an Instagram-famous cavoodle has lost her bid to appeal a ruling in a fight with her former solicitors over fees.

A judge has approved an $87 million settlement in a class action against Hino Motors, but says he needs to hear from a contradictor before greenlighting a law firm's 25 per cent contingency fee.

A judge has tossed an application for a contempt hearing against in-house lawyers, editors and journalists at Nine who allegedly breached suppression orders in a former ABC radio host’s unfair dismissal case.

Developer Dennis Family Corporation has been hit with class action by purchasers of apartment units in Brisbane who allege their contracts were wrongly terminated after the market value of neighbouring properties soared by 40 per cent. 

A law firm has filed a representative complaint with the OAIC on behalf of six million Qantas customers affected by the company's recent data breach.

Receivers for the troubled $500 million East Rockingham waste-to-energy project may have to explore other options after the ACCC expressed competition concerns about Acciona's bid to acquire the project in Western Australia.