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A judge has appointed a provisional liquidator to a company owned by missing Sydney businesswoman Melissa Caddick, while criticising ASIC for not cooperating with her brother who is seeking to vary asset preservation orders made over his sister's property.
The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission has taken franchise giant Retail Food Group to court for allegedly misleading purchasers of loss-making franchises about the profitability or viability of its stores.
The Federal Court judge who is now overseeing a high stakes criminal cartel case against several investment banks and individuals over a $2.5 billion ANZ share placement has ordered that an indictment be filed by February 1, telling the parties "we have to get this case moving" and that he hoped to move the matter to trial "before we all retire".
Maurice Blackburn has hit Crown Resorts with a shareholder class action alleging the casino giant had lax anti-money laundering compliance systems in place over a six-year period.
A judge has thrown out the portion of a lawsuit brought by an ANZ trader who was sacked in 2015 that was brought under enhanced whistleblower protections that took effect in 2019, saying the civil remedy provisions do not apply retrospectively.
ASIC has launched civil penalty proceedings against Union Standard International Group and its former authorised representatives alleging the embattled Sydney-based forex broker traded in margin products with Chinese clients despite knowing it was illegal under Chinese law.
The High Court will not hear cleaning services giant Spotless Group's challenge to a ruling that found it must pay redundancy entitlements to a group of workers it sacked.
Embattled Mayfair Group director James Mawhinney is under pressure to secure legal representation to defend his companies against a misleading and deceptive conduct case brought by ASIC, but the Big Six firm he has in mind has yet to commit.
A judge has allowed documents obtained from examination proceedings against directors of Linchpin Capital to be used in a class action against the failed financial services group.