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Construction company Richard Crookes plans to appeal a ruling which found the Security of Payment Act is available to insolvent builders to pursue debts under a deed of company arrangement, despite an amendment to the law preventing construction companies in liquidation from enforcing payment claims.
The fifth and final defendant named in a criminal proceeding over a $105 million tax fraud involving payroll services company Plutus Payroll has been found guilty for his part in the scheme.
A class action against Carnival over norovirus outbreaks on its Sun Princess cruise ship is facing a strike out bid, with the cruise operator also flagging a declassing application down the line.
Hospitality giant Merivale is contesting a bid by the applicant in a $129 million underpayments class action to issue a second opt out notice to employees, which it said was an attempt to ensure group members “take an interest” in the proceedings.
The Greens are pushing for reforms that would give employees the ‘right to disconnect’ by prohibiting employers from contacting them outside of work hours.
A judge has stayed an Australian lawsuit filed by food delivery service HungryPanda against competitor Fantuan over the acquisition delivery platform EASI until a related UK lawsuit is resolved, amid a fight for control of the local Asian food delivery market.
The High Court has denied Clive Palmer leave to appeal successive court decisions which found his company Mineralogy's royalties dispute with mining company Adani should be determined through a dispute resolution process rather than in court.
Telecommunications giant Singtel Optus has been barred from promoting various products using the word ‘boost’ until an intellectual property suit brought by Boost Mobile is resolved.
A director at office leasing company Cushman & Wakefield who accepted a job with a competitor has lost a bid to lift an injunction keeping her on garden leave for three months, with a judge finding she was the “author of her own misfortune” for failing to read her employment contract.
Acciona has hit back at a suit brought by the entity in charge of a $511 million waste-to-energy plant south of Perth alleging it was unlawfully shut out of the project site, with the Spanish infrastructure giant saying the entity had no “unlimited right of access.”