Justice Craig Colvin

An appeals court has shut down a case brought by investment adviser Deep Investments against a solicitor and six others over $10 million in alleged share trading losses, saying the proceedings were an abuse of process.

Spotless Services violated the Fair Work Act by failing to pay redundancy for workers employed at Perth International Airport, a court has found, in a ruling that clarifies when employers are on the hook for redundancy payments.

A judge has shot down a Perth businessman’s argument that an email forwarded by a Gadens lawyer from ASIC alerting him that he had been disqualified from serving as a director did not constitute proper notification.