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Class action against NSW public hospital operators can continue, judge rules
Class Actions 2019-03-18 9:48 pm By Christine Caulfield

A judge has rejected a motion by the NSW government and 15 local health districts to shut down a class action by the relatives of overseas patients who were forced to serve as guarantors and hit with hospital bills worth tens of thousands of dollars.

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ASIC caused major trader to ‘vanish’, defamation trial hears
Securities 2019-03-18 8:32 pm By Miklos Bolza

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission made global trading firm Select Vantage “vanish overnight” from the Australian market using slanderous statements based on a lack of evidence, the NSW Supreme Court has heard.

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Deloitte contributed to Dick Smith’s downfall, class actions now claim
Class Actions 2019-03-18 8:01 pm By Miklos Bolza

Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu is facing claims by the lead applicants in two class actions against failed retail giant Dick Smith alleging its poor accounting practices contributed to the retailer’s collapse.

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IOOF faces shareholder class action after APRA case
Financial Services 2019-03-18 10:56 am By Christine Caulfield

Wealth manager IOOF is facing a shareholder class action alleging it failed to tell investors that misconduct aired at the Banking Royal Commission would put it in the crosshairs of Australia’s financial regulator.

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Fairfax fights $280,000 ruling in Chau Chak Wing defamation case
Defamation 2019-03-18 10:48 am By Cat Fredenburgh

Fairfax Media is challenging a ruling ordering it to pay $280,000 in damages to Chau Chak Wing for an allegedly defamatory article that appeared in the Sydney Morning Herald linking the wealthy Chinese-Australian businessman to an international bribery scandal.

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Viva Energy fined $100,000 for polluting Sydney Harbour in NYE oil spill
Energy & Natural Resources 2019-03-15 10:37 pm By Christine Caulfield

Viva Energy has been convicted and fined $100,000 for polluting Sydney Harbour after a marine fuel oil spill from a corroded pipe at the company’s Gore Bay terminal on New Year’s Eve three years ago.

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Internet provider Activ8me fined $250,000 for misleading customers
Competition & Consumer Protection 2019-03-15 10:20 pm By Christine Caulfield

A court has ordered internet provider Activ8me to pay $250,000 in penalties for making false and misleading claims about the performance of its internet services, the consumer watchdog said Friday.

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Financial adviser gets 10 years for using clients’ funds ‘as he pleased’
White Collar 2019-03-15 10:08 pm By Cat Fredenburgh

A former financial advised has been sentenced to 10 years in prison for doing ‘as he pleased’ with $5 million in client funds that were earmarked for superannuation investments.

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Appeals court tosses challenge to Allianz Stadium demolition
Construction 2019-03-15 9:54 pm By Miklos Bolza

A Sydney community group has lost a last-minute challenge to the demolition of Allianz Stadium, with the Court of Appeal throwing the case out in a unanimous decision.

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Harry Triguboff’s Meriton sues NSW premier over Macquarie Park tower
Real Estate 2019-03-14 11:54 pm By Christine Caulfield

Billionaire property developer Harry Triguboff is taking NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian to court in his fight for approval of a controversial tower in Macquarie Park, Sydney.

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