The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has released details of its allegations against embattled property developer Sasha Hopkins, who is the subject of several freezing orders won by the regulator earlier this month.
Melbourne-based hard assets investment manager Merricks Capital has filed court proceedings to block its ex-managing director and two other former employees from working at a investment boutique run by financial commentator Peter Switzer and his son Marty.
Embattled property developer Sasha Hopkins will face a compulsory examination by the Australian Securities and Investments Commission over the activities of his company A Team Property Group.
A judge has allowed three witnesses for HK Realway to give evidence by video link at an upcoming negligence trial against Thomson Geer, over protests from the firm, which said it would be inherently unfair.
The High Court has refused Sydney retail personality Con Constantine’s bid to challenge a $4.25 million judgment in his favour over the $81.8 million Parklea Markets sale in 2016.
A long-running class action over the Opal Tower disaster has settled, along with two related cases over the defective building, as a five-week trial was set to begin.
United Petroleum has taken Perth Airport to court, arguing it was induced to enter a $900,000 lease and construction agreement at the airport’s central precinct with empty promises of redevelopment at the site.
Hall & Wilcox has appointed a new partner to join its real estate practice in Brisbane, the second partner appointment in as many months at the firm’s Queen Street offices.
Moray & Agnew is facing a lawsuit by a former client who says the firm breached its duties by making an unauthorised $3.3 million transfer while representing him on an investment in a Melbourne storage facility development.
A NSW developer says law firm Sparke Helmore should face a heftier damages bill for its negligence in failing to alert it to an imminent deadline in two land sale contracts worth a combined $1.5 million that were part of a troubled $30 million development.