Industries

ANZ can't call its former group chief risk officer — now a strategic advisor for Clayton Utz — to give evidence as it defends a whistleblower case by former trader Etienne Alexiou.

Hostplus has called out Lendlease for encouraging investors to skip a meeting convened by the super fund heavyweight in its bid to boot the real estate manager from the $2 billion APPF Industrial fund.

Former ANZ trader Etienne Alexiou has admitted during cross-examination that lewd messages sent to other bankers through Bloomberg’s messaging platform were inappropriate and could cause offence.

Jayco must spell out its claim that it explained the specific features of its recreational vehicles to customers, as part of its defence to an ACCC case over alleged misleading statements, a judge has said.

An entity associated with the director of defunct Sydney builder Quasar Constructions has failed to hand over details about its assets to liquidators, prompting further orders with a warning from the court.

Hall & Wilcox has struck back at proceedings by the liquidators for collapsed construction group Hastie, saying they have failed to specify why its $18.6 million legal bill incurred in suing two dozen builders is unreasonable.

The ACCC has picked up its review into Acciona's bid to acquire the $500 million East Rockingham waste-to-energy project in Western Australia, after hitting pause last month. 

German car hire company SIXT has dropped its bid for an injunction barring Darwin International Airport from requiring it to vacate the premises it operates out of at the airport. 

Optus has suffered another Triple Zero outage, just over a week after a 13-hour outage across three states that was linked to the deaths of three people.

In the first penalty to be handed down for breaches of the Privacy Act, pathology services provider Australian Clinical Labs has agreed to cop a $5.8 million fine over a 2022 data breach that compromised the personal information of 223,000 customers of its Medlab business.