MLC admits to contraventions in $17.5M ASIC suit

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Wealth manager MLC Limited has admitted to violating the Corporations Act by failing to send overdue notices to policyholders over a 15-year period, but will defend the bulk of ASIC’s claims in proceedings accusing it of causing $17.5 million in harm to over a quarter of a million consumers.

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Epic Games resists bid to delay Apple trial while Google catches up

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Epic Games has argued in favour of steaming ahead with a trial in its competition case against Apple while its parallel case against Google remains in the embryonic stage, but the tech giants say Google’s litigation should catch up in the hopes that the court can hear a joint trial or hold contemporaneous hearings.

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SingTel can’t salvage $190,000 in transfer pricing deductions on $14.2B Optus buy

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SingTel has been blocked from making $190,000 in tax deductions after the Australian Taxation Office won its Federal Court case against the Singaporean teleco over transfer pricing benefits related to the $14.2 billion acquisition of Optus.

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‘Everybody is incredulous’: Silk tells court of surprise at Norman O’Bryan’s fall from grace

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Commenting on the unprecedented nature of the case against her client — the so-called postbox solicitor in the Banksia Securities class action — a senior barrister has told a court of her shock at the conduct of her former colleague at the bar, Norman O’Bryan, who acted as lead counsel in the scandal-ridden litigation.

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Judge questions if Philips class action ‘appropriately resourced’

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A judge has questioned whether the lead applicant in a class action over sleep apnea machines with alleged safety defects was “appropriately resourced” to run the case against health tech giant Philips.

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EX-ANZ money markets head says he was fired after complaining about sexual harassment, APRA reporting

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The former head of money markets at the Australian and New Zealand Banking Group has sued his former employer claiming he was sacked for making complaints about sexual harassment by senior managers at the bank and false reporting to the prudential regulator.

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ACCC says agreement to settle Revlimid patent suit could violate cartel laws

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The ACCC has refused to authorise a patent settlement and license agreement between Bristol-Myers Squibb unit Celgene and two generic drug makers who sued to invalidate the patents for its blockbuster cancer drug Revlimid, saying it could distort competition between generic drug makers.

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Union planning to upsize rest break cases against McDonald’s

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The Shop, Distributive and Allied Employees Association has flagged its intent to bring further cases against various McDonald’s franchisees, alongside eleven claims it has brought to date over alleged failures to give workers paid 10-minute breaks.

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Corestaff group members would get less than half of $6.4M settlement if funder seeks 35% cut

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Group members in a class action by Papua New Guinea workers against labour hire firm CoreStaff would get less than half of a $6.4 million settlement if the funder that backed the case seeks a common funder order for a 35 per cent commission.

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