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Rangers Football Club hits back at $3M suit over abandoned match
Scottish football team Rangers says it was entitled to nix an agreement to play matches in Sydney last year, in its defence to a $3 million suit brought by Australian sports promoters TEG Live and Left Field Live.
Nuix class action to go ahead despite ASIC case
A shareholder class action against software company Nuix will go ahead as planned, after a stay application threatened to put the proceeding on ice pending the outcome of a separate case brought by ASIC.
GetSwift director can’t be located for service of suit by ex-Demons teammate
GetSwift director Joel Macdonald cannot be located for service of a $15 million lawsuit by his former Melbourne Demons teammate James Strauss, a court has heard.
Hotel quarantine class action survives second shutdown bid by Victorian government
The state of Victoria has lost its appeal bid to stay a class action brought over the 2020 hotel quarantine debacle in light of a pending criminal action against the Department of Health.
Judge throws cold water on Fairy’s ’30 Minute Miracle’ launch
A judge has hit the maker of Fairy dishwashing products with an interim injunction that will disrupt the launch of its 30 Minute Miracle detergent, after finding consumer claims by the maker of Finish dishwashing products had a strong prospect of success.
Lauren Cranston jailed for eight years for Plutus tax fraud
The daughter of a former ATO boss has been sentenced to eight years imprisonment over her role in an $105 million tax fraud involving payroll services company Plutus Payroll, with a judge finding she showed “no contrition” for her conduct.
Australian Open ‘let’ device maker hit with $350,000 judgment for patent infringement
A German company and its director have been ordered to pay over $350,000 in damages to the patent holder of a infringing device used to detect ‘lets’ in tennis that was used at the Australian Open for three years.
Giggle for Girls suit primed as test case for transgender rights, court hears
A discrimination case brought by a transgender woman who was excluded from female social network Giggle for Girls may test the metes and bounds of Gillard-era amendments to the Sex Discrimination Act, a court has heard.
ANZ, Citigroup execs defend book coverage despite receding demand in $2.5B capital raising
Two executives involved in ANZ’s $2.5 billion equity capital raising have stood by arguments that the book was covered when the bank’s underwriters took up $750 million of the shares, despite ASIC’s allegations of “receding demand” on the day of the placement.
‘The book was covered’: ANZ fights ‘entirely novel’ ASIC case over $2.5B share placement
ANZ has told a court it had no obligation to disclose a $750M bailout by the underwriters of a $2.5B equity capital raising in 2015, in ASIC's case alleging the bank breached its continuous disclosure obligations by failing to alert the market to the bailout.