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Judge tosses ASIC’s case against payday lenders Cigno, BHF
A court has dismissed ASIC’s enforcement action against payday lenders Cigno and BHF Solutions, finding the companies did not need a licence to issue loans to hundreds of thousands of consumers.
Nudie Juice family wants court to extinguish judgment debt
Members of the Binetter family have sued the trustees of a Nudie Juice co-founder Emil Binetter’s estate for settlement details over debts claimed against the family in a bid to extinguish any judgment debt against the estate, a court has heard.
Intellectual property barrister David Larish on building a practice ‘from nothing’
For intellectual property barrister David Larish, one of the most pivotal moments in his career had nothing to do with working on a case.
Judge slams ABC for ‘inadvisible’ redactions in court battle over The Checkout
A judge has criticised the Australian Broadcasting Corporation for “ill advised” redactions in documents produced in a dispute between the producers of the consumer affairs television series The Checkout.
Ben Roberts-Smith admits to owning glass replica of prosthetic leg
Ben Roberts-Smith has admitted that he owns a glass replica of the prosthetic leg belonging to a man he killed in Afghanistan, as trial in his defamation case entered its third week.
Barrister reprimanded for lewd gesture at professional dinner
A NSW barrister who allegedly pushed an assistant clerk’s head while making a sexual remark at a professional dinner has been reprimanded for unsatisfactory professional conduct.
Johnson Winter & Slattery’s Felicity Karageorge on why she’s always learning
Johnson Winter & Slattery senior associate Felicity Karageorge first discovered she wanted a career in the law from an unlikely source: daytime television.
Ben Roberts-Smith accused of ‘inventing stories’ on second day of cross-examination
Ben Roberts-Smith has been accused of “inventing stories” to conceal facts that would support publisher Fairfax’s version of events concerning war crimes allegedly committed by the former SAS soldier in Afghanistan.
Ben Roberts-Smith tells court another soldier shot at unarmed Afghan man first
Accused war criminal Ben Roberts-Smith has told a court it was “more than reasonable” for him to assume an unarmed Afghan man was a hostile insurgent because he saw another soldier shoot at the man first.
How Arnold Bloch Leibler’s Elyse Hilton survived the Hayne commission and made partner
Unlike many successful litigation partners, Arnold Bloch Leibler partner Elyse Hilton wanted to be “anything but a lawyer” when she was in high school.