Fuji Xerox and Ernst & Young have settled a lawsuit over $450 million in alleged accounting irregularities that also ensnared an EY partner and two senior Fuji executives.
A judge has ruled that separate breaches of statutory building warranties do not create individual causes of action, in a win for an owners corporation bringing claims against the builder of an allegedly defective Haymarket apartment building.
Car dealers bringing a $650 million lawsuit against Mercedes over its decision to move to a fixed-price agency model have won access to board meeting minutes and related correspondence sent to the company’s top brass.
Two former executives at Fuji Xerox’s Australian unit have settled a lawsuit over their roles in a $450 million accounting scandal that has also ensnared auditor Ernst & Young.
Car dealers bringing a $650 million lawsuit against Mercedes over its decision to move to a fixed-price agency model are seeking to access legal advice given to the car manufacturer on non-renewal notices at the heart of the case.
A Hong Hong-based developer has accused HWL Ebsworth of failing to advise that by using a foreign-domiciled vehicle to purchase a share in a lender that provided mortgages to overseas buyers in two of Melbourne’s biggest developments it would subject the mortgages to Foreign Investment Review Board review.
A court has directed a senior barrister acting in a $650 million lawsuit against Mercedes-Benz to “tear up” a letter his instructing solicitors sent concerning the judge’s ownership of a Mercedes vehicle, and said he was “surprised” the counsel signed off on it.
A judge has declined to pass on a senior barrister’s $18,000 cancellation fee as part of an adverse costs order for a vacated trial, noting that such fees are not standard or common practice.
Mercedes can’t access communications between Australia’s peak body for car dealers and a Labor senator to use in its defence of a $650 million lawsuit over its decision to move to a fixed-price agency model.
Officials at the Mercedes-Benz Australia head office referred to car dealers as “baby piglets” in internal communications and threatened and bullied the retailers, a trial court has been told in a $650 million lawsuit over the car maker’s decision to move to a fixed-price agency model.