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Woolworths has agreed to pay $1.75 million in Adero Law's legal costs as part of a settlement of an underpayments class action which will see group members recoup any amounts they are owed in a separate proceeding brought by the Fair Work Ombudsman rather than the class action.
Logistics company GetSwift says it is considering an appeal of an 859-page judgment which lambasted the company and its directors' "public relations-driven approach" to announcements on the Australian Stock Exchange.
One of the world’s leading audio branding companies has agreed to amend its contract terms, which penalised customers for cancelling within a 42-day period of their contract ending, following an investigation by the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission.
A judge said he “gagged” at the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission’s proposed $5 million pecuniary penalty in its case against specialist workplace relations company Employsure over six misleading Google ads.
The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has scored a victory in its long-running case against GetSwift, with the Federal Court finding the company and its directors breached the Corporations Act and ASIC Act through their "public relations-driven approach" to announcements on the Australian Stock Exchange.
The Commonwealth Bank of Australia has failed in its bid to dismiss a case brought by customers who claim they were the victims of "cuckoo-smurfing" and had funds seized as proceeds of crime because the bank breached its anti-money laundering obligations.
Former Quantum Resources CEO and director Avrohom Kimelman has been sentenced after being convicted on charges of insider trading and conspiring to manipulate the market in shares of the company, now known as Nova Minerals.
The ACCC's practice of successively refining witness statements without saving draft versions was "quite unfair", says a judge overseeing the competition regulator's criminal cartel case over a botched ANZ share placement.
Former Tennis Australia president Steven Healy has lost his bid for $4.3 million in indemnity costs against ASIC over its failed case over the rights to the Australian Open, with a judge finding the regulator’s case against him had “reasonable prospects of success” before trial.
US-based facial recognition software company Clearview AI has been ordered to cease collecting facial images from individuals in Australia and destroy all the data it has collected within the country.