An appeals court has thrown out challenges by three mining giants to a Fair Work Commission decision that requires them to bargain together with a group of employees and their union.
A judge has rejected all but two claims by ASIC in a suit against car finance provider Money3 and criticised how the regulator ran its case, saying it had consumed an “inordinate and disproportionate amount of the judicial and administrative resources of the court”.
A judge has signed off on a $13.5 million penalty agreed to by retailer The Good Guys for making misleading statements about store credit and StoreCash schemes to customers.
A group of labour hire firms are continuing their push to disqualify former Labor MP turned Fair Work Commission deputy president Terri Butler from same job, same pay cases by the union representing coal miners.
Coles and Woolworths estimate they will need to remediate underpaid workers up to $780 million, following a complex judgment in two class actions and regulatory proceedings handed down last week.
A court has appointed receivers to two entities of collapsed asset manager Australian Fiduciaries amid concerns by the corporate regulator that $167 million in funds have been misused, including to buy $600,000 in luxury cars.
Meta has lost its latest bid to strike out the consumer regulator’s case alleging it failed to put up “reasonable safeguards” to prevent scam cryptocurrency ads on its Facebook platform.
A judge has criticised the “unacceptably complex” trial of two regulatory cases and two underpayments class actions against Coles and Woolworths, delivering a ruling whose significance for the workers is not yet clear.
The applicant in a class action by former RAMS franchisees can’t intervene in proceedings by ASIC against the defunct Westpac mortgage unit, with a judge finding the outcome of the ASIC case will not affect the class action.
A judge has hit Mayfair Group director James Mawhinney with 15-year injunctions, after finding he took a “cavalier attitude to compliance” in marketing notes tied to Mission Beach properties in Queensland.