The corporate regulator has brought proceedings against the former boss of defunct Freedom Insurance and another executive over an insurance sales program that incentivized sales agents with overseas holidays and a Vespa scooter.
The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission has won an injunction to stop Virtus from completing the purchase of rival Adora Fertility until a court has ruled on the competition regulator’s challenge to the acquisition.
An ex-Rentokil supply manager has admitted that payments from the pest control company totalling $3.2 million were sent to his bank accounts but has denied this was part of a fraudulent invoicing scheme.
The founder of troubled sports streaming start-up Sports Flick has filed a $12.7 million lawsuit against former investors seeking to be reinstated as director and shareholder of the company.
The Victorian Supreme Court will push ahead with a hearing for a group costs order in a class action by Arrium shareholders despite requests by the applicants that it be put off until after judgment is issued on the second-ever group costs order request.
Mobility equipment provider Country Care has taken a law firm to court claiming it gave negligent advice and was responsible for an ACCC price-fixing investigation and subsequent criminal cartel charges.
A judge won’t make HWL Ebsworth managing partner Juan Martinez the representative defendant in a former partner’s $4.4 million lawsuit against the firm, saying Martinez’ interests and those of the other partners could diverge.
Christian Porter and silk Sue Chrysanthou are fighting a $550,000 legal bill of Jo Dyer, a friend of the woman who accused Porter of rape, after she succeeded in having the barrister removed from the former attorney-general’s defamation lawsuit against the ABC.
A Canberra-based property developer may be hit with a class action for allegedly engaging in misleading and deceptive practices which caused financial losses to property buyers, including by rescinding or cancelling off-the-plan contracts in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic.
The lawyer at the centre of a $160,000 legal battle with former employer Norton Rose Fulbright has been restrained from acting as his own corporation’s legal representative in a joint venture dispute due to a conflict of interest.
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