April Freeman

A former Peabody Energy employee who claims she was sacked after raising safety concerns has lost her bid to restrain MinterEllison from representing her former employer.

The Queensland Supreme Court has tossed a judicial review application by mining magnate Clive Palmer seeking a declaration that criminal proceedings against him should be thrown out as abuses of process. 

A court has granted ASIC’s bid to wind up an illegal managed investment scheme whose operators fled to India following the “systematic misappropriation” of almost $7 million in investor funds.