Car giant Toyota is facing a class action seeking compensation on behalf of around 250,000 vehicle owners who allegedly suffered loss from faulty diesel filters in the automaker’s Hilux, Fortuner and Prado diesel model cars.
Australian airline giant Qantas says it has no plans to decrease its 19.9 per cent stake in Alliance Airlines, after the competition watchdog expressed preliminary concerns the deal could substantially lessen competition.
US biotechnology firm Regeneron Pharmaceuticals has lost its opposition to a proposed patent by UK biopharmaceutical company Kymab for a method of producing an animal with part-human DNA.
The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has warned superannuation funds they face criminal penalties if they try to win over employers with tickets to sporting events or other gifts.
Lawyers for former Vocation CEO Mark Hutchinson say the corporate regulator is “plucking numbers out of the air” in its bid to secure disqualifications of up to eight years against the former executives who breached their directors’ duties in relation to the collapsed education provider.
Australian coal miner Moreton Resources has won a Full Federal Court appeal over tax offsets it claims are owed over a failed pilot project testing underground coal gasification, a process which was ultimately banned in Queensland.
A judge overseeing a consolidated shareholder class action against logistics company Brambles has expressed frustration with the parties, who are locked in an unresolved discovery battle three months after his order consolidating the litigation.
A judge has rejected a proposed common fund order in the settled KPMG class action, saying the funder’s commission was “arguably excessive” and could result in a “stratospheric” return to the firm.
A six-week trial set to start in October in the cartel case against mobility equipment provider Country Care Group has been vacated and rescheduled to next year, as the judge overseeing the case quipped that he was either the “canary or the guinea pig” in the landmark criminal proceeding.
Customers of mortgage lending and investment firm RMBL say they were “shocked” when the company’s chief financial officer allegedly called them to say “he hoped” they would opt out of an excessive fees class action that had been filed against the firm.