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A judge hearing two enforcement cases by regulators against embattled casino operator Star Entertainment has flagged the potential appearance of bias if he continues to preside over both proceedings.

Star Entertainment has reached an agreement with Hong Kong-based investors Chow Tai Fook Enterprises and Far East Consortium on the $53 million buyout of its stake in the Queen’s Wharf entertainment project in Brisbane. 

Super Retail Group's former top lawyer wants to lift a suppression order covering details of a settlement she says was reached after she was dismissed from the company.

Telstra has been hit with a $626,00 penalty for sending over 10 million text messages that required customers to log in before unsubscribing. 

Facing a grilling at trial in ASIC's money laundering case, Star's former boss has been accused of giving a false account of a conversation he had with the casino operator's head of due diligence.

A delegate has ordered the removal of Macquarie's 'Macbank' trade mark, finding no evidence of use in the course of trade despite the moniker being widely used to refer to the bank colloquially.

The judge who approved a $2.4 million settlement in a class action against Carnival said it should be regarded as a victory that cruise passengers got anything, when the case was pleaded at an "unsustainably high level".

Munich Reinsurance has been given the OK to bring additional claims in its $696 million lawsuit, which accuses AMP of misleading or deceptive conduct over a quota share agreement.

Pharmaceutical giant Lundbeck has resolved its battle with Novartis unit Sandoz over top-selling drug Lexapro, a battle that has raged for years and across multiple courts.

Defamation boutique Giles George has a “good arguable case” that it has a solicitor’s lien over costs payable by Nine in a defamation case by barrister Gina Edwards over social media cavoodle Oscar.