A challenge by Quinn Emanuel to a NSW Supreme Court decision staying its shareholder class action against AMP has been unanimously dismissed by the Court of Appeal, which found the class action beauty contest was not decided in error and that subsequently filed representative proceedings were not an abuse of process.
BlueScope avoids criminal cartel charges, but exec accused of obstructing ACCC probe
Judge signs off on $725K in fees in $1.2M recycling plant fire class action settlement
Full Court finds Bellamy’s cost-capping appeal ‘not strong’, but denies indemnity costs
‘Fundamental misapprehensions’: Suncorp strikes back at class action over conflicted remuneration
Westpac gives court more reasons to uphold win in ASIC’s responsible lending case
Tucker & Cowen loses second bid to dodge $17.5M Equititrust case
Sacked HWL Ebsworth lawyer fights to revive unfair dismissal case
After ASIC raises ire, judge sets down new rules for regulators in his court
ASIC and other government regulators bringing enforcement action in the docket of one Federal Court judge must abide by a strict new protocol to prevent a repeat of the corporate watchdog’s “wait and see” strategy in a case against ex-Murray Goulburn directors that came close, the judge said, to bringing the administration of justice into disrepute.
ASIC’s belated case against ex-Murray Goulburn execs survives, but judge says never again
A judge has refused a bid by two former Murray Goulburn executives to throw out a disqualification case brought by the Australian Securities and Investments Commission, despite admonishing the corporate regulator for its delay in bringing the case and establishing a protocol for regulators filing cases in his docket.