A former Commonwealth Bank executive facing criminal commercial bribery charges has been ordered to hand over a number of documents in a US lawsuit brought by IT company Computer Sciences Corporation, but has avoided orders compelling him to take the witness stand.
Medical device manufacturer American Medical Systems has reasserted that it cannot face claims under Australian consumer laws over its allegedly defective vaginal mesh products because it only supplied the products to a US subsidiary.
A self-described “vigilant lawyer against big companies” has attempted to make submissions regarding the costs incurred in the Sirtex shareholder class action settlement, with legal fees and funders’ commissions chewing up half of the $40 million settlement figure. Maurice Blackburn took the lead after two shareholder class actions relating to the biotech company’s revised sales…
Malaysia Airlines has reached a settlement with five Australian families whose loved ones were killed when flight MH17 was shot down over eastern Ukraine by a Russian missile five years ago.
We have been told for so long that the volume of class action litigation continues to increase at a rapid rate, thus requiring significant legislative intervention, that the title of this piece may (legitimately) prompt at least some readers to check if today is the 1st of April. But this is no April Fools’ Day prank.
The former directors of Murray Goulburn, who admitted in proceedings brought by the ACCC to aiding in false representations the dairy co-op made to farmers about the farmgate milk prices it would pay during the 2015-16 season, are now facing a separate lawsuit by the Australian Securities and Investments Commission.
The ABC and News Corp are bringing legal action to challenge warrants authorising controversial raids by Australian Federal Police on the headquarters of the public broadcaster and the home of political journalist Annika Smethurst.
Gilbert + Tobin has lured the former global head of antitrust at Swiss pharmaceutical giant Novartis to its competition group.
Retail Food Group is the target of a possible class action by franchisees in the wake of a parliamentary report that called on three government agencies to probe the franchise giant and its top executives for potential insider trading, tax evasion and other unlawful conduct.
The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission has rejected a resale price maintenance plan by Meredith Dairy that would block resellers from selling its goat cheese products below a specified price, saying the potential harm to competition was not outweighed by any benefits.