Pitcher Partners has filed a bid to transfer a $127 million lawsuit brought by the Twigg family alleging the accounting firm helped Max Twigg misappropriate $127.8 million in family trust money for himself.
Qantas has asked the High Court to reverse a judgment that found it violated the Fair Work Act by axing 1,800 ground staff partly to prevent them from bringing industrial action.
A barrister for CEO and founder of Euro Pacific Bank Peter Schiff has raised concerns that Nine has filed an unlawful defence in a defamation case over a 60 Minutes episode accusing the bank boss of tax evasion and helping figures in organised crime.
The CEO of Optus has come out swinging against a proposed 10-year agreement between TPG and Telstra to share mobile network infrastructure and spectrum in parts of regional Australia, warning it would harm consumers.
Uber has appealed a ruling that found many of its email exchanges with its lawyers were made in furtherance of offences at the centre of a class action and were not protected by legal professional privilege.
Mercedes-Benz is facing a potential class action over a recall affecting over 17,000 vehicles installed with faulty brake boosters.
The former CEO of failed electronics retailer Dick Smith should be held responsible for approving two dividend payments worth $28.5 million which the company could not afford to pay given it owed millions in unpaid bank loans and supplier debts, an appeals court has heard.
Victoria’s gambling regulator has hit Crown Resorts with a record $80 million penalty over its China Union Pay scheme, which allowed wealthy Chinese patrons to illegally access nearly $164 million in funds.
The Australia and New Zealand Banking Group hit hundreds of thousands of customers with cash advance fees after providing them with incorrect account balances, and the Big Four bank has still not rectified the problem, ASIC alleges in new civil penalty proceedings.
Alleged war criminal Ben Roberts-Smith has won a bid to call a troop commander known as Person 81 in his defamation trial against Fairfax Media, despite the media company’s objections.