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Avant Insurance has lost its bid to challenge a ruling which put it on the hook for indemnifying a plastic surgeon in class action proceedings over allegedly botched breast augmentations at a defunct NSW clinic.
ANZ and Westpac have failed in their bid for a contradictor to weigh in on a contingency fee bid in two class actions, as the law firm that lost the first ever application for a group costs order tries again.
Liquidators of failed tech company GetSwift have foreshadowed an objection to a $1.5 million settlement going to shareholders in a class action that a judge has labelled a “disaster".
The operator of the Royal Perth Hospital has brought legal action against Griffith Hack alleging the law firm contributed to the "dishonest and fraudulent design" of a leading researcher to transfer the intellectual property rights to a stem cell manufacturing method developed inhouse.
The High Court has turned down the appeal of the former Blue Star Helium CEO who was hit with a $40,000 penalty and four-year ban after the company failed to disclose to shareholders the identity of the buyer behind a botched sale of Texas oil assets.
A judge has refused to declare COVID-19 a force majeure event in a loss for Spanish infrastructure giant Acciona, which seeks to back out of a construction project for a $696 million Kwinana waste-to-energy plant.
Accounting firm Pitcher Partners has hit back at a lawsuit by the former owner of fitness franchise Zap Fitness claiming the firm failed to properly advise on a troubled share buy-back scheme that spawned litigation the company paid $4.25 million to settle.
A former Tesla Motors Australia director has pleaded guilty to two counts of insider trading for acquiring shares in Piedmont Lithium based on insider information he had about an in-principle agreement the mining company had to supply lithium to Tesla.
Eco-conscious Australian skincare company Sukin has been hit with a lawsuit alleging it misled consumers by selling products labelled with a carbon neutral certification it did not hold.
Former CEO of failed van Eyk Research has been sentenced to 15 months' imprisonment after admitting he breached his duties as director of a subsidiary to dishonestly retain control of the company.