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A judge has refused to recuse himself from a stoush between litigation funder Vannin Capital and Clive Palmer’s companies over the appointment of a barrister in a claim springing from the long-running Queensland Nickel liquidation case.
A hearing on the validity of border closures by Western Australia and Queensland should be pushed off while WA's expert responds to an urgent request by Victoria's health authorities to help that state deal with its coronavirus outbreak, the Federal Court has been told.
The widow of mining billionaire Ken Talbot has been denied a separate trial to answer questions of privilege in her negligence lawsuit against law firms Arnold Bloch Leibler and Boyd Legal for their handling of her late husband’s estate, which she claims resulted in tens of millions of dollars in losses.
Before the High Court hears constitutional arguments over the Queensland and Western Australian border closures, the Federal Court will have to weigh just how real the risk is of border hoppers increasing the number of coronavirus cases and deaths in the states, a judge has been told.
The widow of mining billionaire Ken Talbot has filed a negligence lawsuit against law firms Arnold Bloch Leibler and Boyd Legal for their handling of her late husband's estate, which she claims resulted in tens of millions of dollars in losses.
Mining magnate Clive Palmer has attacked a class action by timeshare owners of the ill-fated Palmer Coolum Resort on two fronts, arguing that a special levy to fund the action breached the Corporations Act and seeking to strike out significant portions of the case.
Funding for a class action over the troubled Coolum Palmer Resort has been temporarily blocked while a company owned by Clive Palmer appeals a judgment in a separate lawsuit lodged by the billionaire to thwart the class action.
A company owned by Clive Palmer is appealing a ruling that denied its bid to temporarily block funding for a class action over the troubled Coolum Palmer Resort.
A company owned by mining magnate Clive Palmer has lost its bid to temporarily block funding for a class action over the troubled Coolum Palmer Resort, with the Federal Court finding that special levies garnered from villa owners to back the proceedings were above board and legal.
A company owned by Clive Palmer has filed a lawsuit seeking to thwart a class action brought by villa owners in the billionaire's now abandoned Palmer Coolum Resort.