Jetstar is seeking an initial trial on an issue it claims will be a “silver bullet” against a class action on behalf of hundreds of thousands of customers whose flights were cancelled during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Private equity firm Goldstone has lost its bid to lodge an appeal before damages are determined, after a judge found it invalidly terminated its managing director’s employment for standing in the way of a deal with her business partner’s son.
A class action against Qantas has characterised the airline’s document discovery as “wholly inadequate” and is resisting a bid by the airline for six more months to produce senior management emails.
ASIC has won travel bans against two people who are being investigated over their links to Keystone and Falcon Capital funds, which are suspected of misusing investor money, after the regulator claimed losses could be “catastrophic”.
Private equity firm Goldstone has cited an “irretrievable breakdown” in the relationship between shareholders in seeking to appeal a ruling that found it liable for oppression.
Mercedes-Benz dealers have lost their appeal of a decision tossing their $650 million suit, with the Full Court backing the primary judge’s rejection of a “moralistic” approach to unconscionable conduct.
The corporate regulator has secured travel restrictions and freezing orders against two directors of Falcon Capital as part of its investigation into its managed investment fund.
A judge has rejected bids by former Keystone director Paul Chiodo and developer Robert Filippini to stay a $150 million suit, citing investors’ interests as a “powerful” factor weighing against the stay.
Property developers Paul Chiodo and Robert Filippini want to stay proceedings by Keystone’s receivers over $150 million allegedly laundered through City Built’s construction projects, citing “quite likely” criminal charges.
A dispute over a scuppered transaction between the director of collapsed Keystone and the owner of the Marriott Hotel in Venice has been settled.