Google has denied class action that it distorted competition in the app marketplace and left consumers paying higher prices, pointing out in its defence there are alternative app stores on its Android platform.
The Office of the Australian Information Commissioner will proceed with an investigation of a class action-style complaint brought by Maurice Blackburn over Medibank’s data breach.
Former Vocus chairman Vaughan Bowen has been indicted on insider trading charges, five months after prosecutors dropped the same charges after a contested committal hearing.
A former director of Australian Mines has copped at $70,000 penalty in ASIC proceedings accusing him of making false and misleading representations at mining investment conferences in 2018.
Insurance Australia has agreed to pay a $40 million penalty in a case by the Australian Securities and Investments Commission alleging it short-changed NRMA customers a staggering $60 million in promised loyalty discounts.
A city council in the Hunter Valley region is set to appeal to the High Court a decision that found it was liable to pay a flight company over $3.6 million in damages for wasted expenditure after it repudiated a contract to lease land at the local airport.
A judge overseeing two 7-Eleven class actions has signed off on $2.25 million in costs incurred by the funder and lawyers in their pitched battle to win approval for the terms of a $98 million settlement, which included deductions of more than $44 million to cover commission and fees.
Water services company Veolia Water Australia has won its bid for EnergyAustralia and two mining companies to hand over information about the quality of mine water they send for treatment, with a judge finding it could be “materially worse” than promised. In a judgment handed down on Wednesday, Federal Court Justice Scott Goodman ordered EnergyAustralia…
The former dean of a Melbourne art school has resolved her case alleging she was unfairly sacked via Instagram direct message while on annual leave.
The University of Technology Sydney will backpay staff more than $4.4 million, plus $1.3 million in superannuation and interest, after agreeing to an enforceable undertaking with the Fair Work Ombudsman.