Cargill has been ordered to turn over what it describes as “highly confidential” documents related to the possible sale of its malt business, a new revelation in the complex trial over claims Viterra fraudulently concealed crucial information when it sold malt producer Joe White Maltings to Cargill Australia in 2013 for $420 million.
The ACCC is appealing a ruling dismissing its cartel case against Cascade Coal that alleged the company reached an agreement with rival Loyal Coal in the 2009 tender process for mining exploration licences in the Bylong Valley, NSW.
A week before WorleyParson’s CEO promised shareholders net profits in excess of $322 million for the 2014 financial year, the engineering group’s global finance director told its CFO that the company’s earnings targets were “a stretch”, according to an email uncovered in a shareholder class action.
The judge overseeing the GetSwift class action proceedings was bent on picking a winner from the outset and should be removed from the case for rehearing, a barrister for one of the losing law firms told the Full Federal Court Monday.
A Big W worker whose on-the-job injury caused her chronic leg and back pain has won $543,000 in damages against Woolworths after the company admitted breaching its duty to the teenager.
Unlockd says its close to finalising litigation funding to pursue its competition case against Google, but the September trial date has been pushed back as the search engine demands a show of proof that the failed startup can pay up if the case goes Google’s way.
Ophthalmic diagnostic device maker ObjectiVision’s amended claims for damages, filed after a 25-day patent hearing, are “outlandish” and “unfair,” the University of Sydney has told the Federal Court.
Settlements totaling $39 million have been reached in two class actions against the former trustee of failed investment groups LKM Capital and GR Finance.
Three senior Federal Court judges will hear arguments Monday and Tuesday in a closely-watched appeal of a ruling that stayed two of three competing shareholder class actions against GetSwift as an abuse of process, and the impact of the Full Court’s ruling will be felt for a long time to come. Here are five major issues the court will be wrestling with over the next two days.
A judge has dismissed a bid by PriceWaterhouseCoopers to have one of two law firms bow out of a joint class action against the accounting giant after a lead applicant died.