Justice Ashley Black

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.

A judge has found a director of defunct IT company Novo breached his duty to prevent the company from trading while insolvent, but has stopped short of ordering damages, or making findings he breached other duties.

In the latest chapter of a feud between billionaires Fritz Kundrun and Hans Mende, the co-founders of global commodities firm AMCI, a court has found the sacking of the group's Australian managing director was invalid.

An entity associated with James Crawford, the director of defunct Sydney builder Quasar Constructions, has been ordered to disclose all of its assets to the company's liquidators as they look to track down funds from the sale of properties.

Ray White has secured a stay of examinations of its employees, as a creditor of FSM Development investigates claims the real estate agency's loan agreement with the collapsed Sydney developer was uncommercial.

Mayne Pharma and US drug maker Cosette have agreed to postpone the start of trial in a case over the termination of a $672 million merger to allow for late amendments.

The receiver for failed Banksia Securities wants a release from claims stemming from his role, including a case by investors who lost their life savings only to be duped by the class action team that represented them.

Nicholas Bolton has lost his challenge to Keybridge Capital’s move to remove him from the board of confectionary group Yowie, after he was found to have been validly removed as the CEO of Keybridge in March. 

Arnold Bloch Leibler and a litigation partner at the law firm are among defendants named in a new case for their representation of the mastermind behind the scandal-ridden Banksia Securities class action.

A judge has given the greenlight to a $10 million settlement with entities linked to late solicitor and Banksia class action mastermind Mark Elliott, noting the “perverse” difficulty of recovering more of the $70 million in assets held on trust.