A judge did not need to recuse himself from deciding the penalty in ASIC’s case against Sunshine Loans because his earlier adverse credit findings — far from giving rise to bias concerns — were relevant to the task, the regulator has told the High Court.
Developer Robert Filippini is appealing a ruling that granted the liquidators for Keystone Asset Management’s expanded freezing orders of up to $158 million in assets as well as two family trusts and four luxury cars.
In the first penalty to be handed down for breaches of the Privacy Act, pathology services provider Australian Clinical Labs has agreed to cop a $5.8 million fine over a 2022 data breach that compromised the personal information of 223,000 customers of its Medlab business.
ANZ can’t call its former group chief risk officer — now a strategic advisor for Clayton Utz — to give evidence as it defends a whistleblower case by former trader Etienne Alexiou.
Former ANZ trader Etienne Alexiou has admitted during cross-examination that lewd messages sent to other bankers through Bloomberg’s messaging platform were inappropriate and could cause offence.
Optus has suffered another Triple Zero outage, just over a week after a 13-hour outage across three states that was linked to the deaths of three people.
Jayco must spell out its claim that it explained the specific features of its recreational vehicles to customers, as part of its defence to an ACCC case over alleged misleading statements, a judge has said.
Super trustee Retail Employees Superannuation has paid two infringement notices after ASIC alleged it misled over 2,000 members after inadvertently activating insurance cover.
Intrapac unit Brencorp has filed a suit against Casey Group, alleging the rival property developer devised an “underhand” deal to swindle it out of the acquisition of a golf club in southeast Melbourne.
A residential land lease community in NSW’s Central Coast must repay residents for a fee hike after a tribunal ruled the contractual term providing for the increase involved “double dipping” to account for inflation.
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