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The administrators for budget airline Bonza have found it likely traded while insolvent in the lead-up to its voluntary administration, suggesting the airline's directors may have breached their duties under the Corporations Act.
Sydney-based plastic surgeon Daniel Lanzer and several of his associates have objected to a class action’s eighth attempt at getting its claims over allegedly negligent cosmetic procedures right, saying the plaintiffs were engaged in a “continuing cycle of propagating versions” of their case.
Westpac has won its case against the owner of a fruit stand in Sydney's Flemington Markets over a fraudulent scheme perpetrated using a $15 million invoice discounting facility provided by the bank.
In a loss for the Australian Taxation Office, the Full Federal Court has found that payments made by Asahi Breweries-owned Schweppes to PepsiCo under agreements to sell brands such as Pepsi and Mountain Dew in Australia were not subject to a royalty withholding tax.
Melbourne mattress and bedding start-up Sleeping Duck is seeking preliminary discovery of communications between former employees and rival company Eva Sleep, including correspondence allegedly containing financial information and trade secrets.
Previously noting the rate was "well outside the median range", a judge has made an order granting the second highest contingency fee to a law firm running a shareholder class action against vehicle company FleetPartners Group, saying he was satisfied the group costs order was appropriate and necessary.
The liquidators of collapsed media company Big Un are pushing for a trial date in their two-year-old case against financier First Class Capital alleging a three million share purchase was part of a fraudulent design to inflate the collapsed company's share price.
Start-up Element Zero claims Fortescue did not disclose material information to the court when it obtained search orders in its case alleging "industrial scale misuse" of the mining company's confidential information.
A contract dispute between Creedence Clearwater Revival frontman John Fogerty and Country Fest Queensland will be arbitrated in California, after a judge found equivalent claims could not be brought under Queensland law.
A judge has expressed concern about the Australian Securities and Investments Commission's suspicion that a former director of Keystone Asset Management may have used investor funds to purchase a house in his wife’s name, calling it "alarming".