Health tech giant Philips Electronics has been hit with a class action on behalf of consumers who say they have suffered injury and economic loss from using sleep apnea machines with an alleged safety defect that caused them to inhale dangerous chemicals and degrading foam particles.
The state of Victoria is facing a legal challenge to its plan to require all school and childcare staff in the state to receive two doses of a COVID-19 vaccine before December.
The Queensland police Commissioner is facing a lawsuit alleging an order requiring staff to get a COVID-19 vaccine violates privacy and discrimination laws and should be declared invalid.
Apple has been hit with a lawsuit alleging iPhone and iPad devices sold in Australia since at least 2014 and equipped with Touch and Face ID technology infringe two patents held by a non-practicing entity.
A judge has rejected a request for further information on ‘very senior’ Google employees involved in a notification related to a change to Google’s privacy policy which at the centre of court proceedings brought by the ACCC.
Big Six firm Ashurst has committed to achieving gender parity among its partners and senior business service leaders within the next five years.
Clive Palmer’s Mineralogy has appealed a ruling tossing a lawsuit it brought against ASIC, which a judge called an “ill-disguised collateral attack” on the regulator for criminal proceedings against the billionaire mining magnate over $12 million in payments made to his political party in 2013.
Six of the world’s largest car makers have agreed to pay $52 million to settle class actions accusing them of selling cars with deadly Takata airbags.
Former Vocus chairman Vaughan Bowen has been charged with two counts of insider trading for allegedly offloading 5.6 million company shares while in possession of knowledge that a private equity firm would pull its $3.3 billion takeover offer for the telco.
The NSW Police have commenced an investigation into Forum Finance and director Bill Papas, which have been accused by Westpac, French investment bank Societe Generale and Japanese bank SMBC of a $400 million fraud.