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ASIC targets AMP execs in fees for no service probe, court told
AMP executives are the focus of the Australian Securities and Investments Commission's investigation of the wealth management firm's fees for no service scandal, a court heard Friday.
Acciona mulls settlement with NSW Government in light rail dispute
Acciona Infrastructure and Transport for NSW are currently in settlement talks over a $1.2 billion dispute around the NSW government's ongoing light rail project in Sydney.
Wyeth defends validity of patents in trial over best-selling Prevnar 13 vaccine
Pharmaceutical giant Wyeth has shot down arguments by rival Merck Sharp & Dohme that its Prevnar 13 vaccine lacked inventiveness, saying during the closing submissions of a high-stakes patent trial that up until it developed the top-selling shot scientists thought there was a "ceiling" of 11 types of pneumococcal bacteria that could be included in a single vaccine.
‘Likely’ GetSwift class action settlement should not be delayed by High Court appeal, judge says
A judge won't defer the opt-out notice in a shareholder class action against GetSwift pending the High Court's decision on a special leave application to revive a competing class action, saying the sooner the case settles the better.
ASIC challenge to Westpac personal advice ruling likely
The Australian Securities and Investments Commission will likely appeal a ruling that two Westpac units did not provide personal financial advice as part of a campaign encouraging customers to roll over external superannuation accounts.
Sarah Hanson-Young wants Leyonhjelm to pay her legal bill for unexplained court absence
Greens senator Sarah Hanson-Young, who is suing fellow senator David Leyonhjelm for defamation, has asked a court for the costs of having her lawyers appear at a hearing for which his side failed, without explanation, to appear.
Rival law firms backpedal in deal over competing Commonwealth Bank class actions
Law firms Maurice Blackburn and Phi Finney McDonald have stepped back from a proposed consolidation of their class actions against the Commonwealth Bank of Australia and want to run their own cases again, but now with "harmonised" pleadings.
Merck Sharp & Dohme slams Wyeth vaccine patent claims as ‘hearsay and speculation’
Claims by Wyeth that its patented Prevnar 13 pneumococcal vaccine was inventive because other pharmaceutical giants had failed in developing similar vaccines are based on "hearsay and speculation," Merck Sharp & Dohme told the court during closing submissions in the high-stakes trial over the world's best-selling vaccine.
Common fund orders fulfil class action promise, lawyers tell historic appeals court
Common fund orders are the completion of the notion of class actions envisaged when the regime was introduced 27 years ago, a joint-sitting of two appeals courts was told on the second and last day of a landmark challenge to what has become an oft-used case management tool by trial judges.
ABC demands details from Michelle Guthrie before mediation in unfair sacking case
The ABC has called for a "clearer articulation" of former managing director Michelle Guthrie's unfair sacking claims against the broadcaster ahead of court-ordered mediation.