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Accused Ponzi schemer Chris Marco has been hit with criminal charges after an investigation by the Australian Securities and Investments Commission found he defrauded $36.5 million from nine investors.
BHP Group has been granted special leave from the High Court to appeal a ruling that rejected its bid to exclude foreign investors from a shareholder class action over the 2015 Fundao dam disaster.
Plumbing company Repipe has asked the High Court to take up its case centred on the controversial issue of patent eligibility for computer-implemented inventions, seeking to overturn a judgment it argues sets a new and impermissible test.
The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has hit beleaguered mining firm Griffin Coal with criminal charges over its alleged failure to lodge annual financial reports for 2019 and 2020.
Three companies operated by convicted accountant Vanda Gould have failed again to block further cross examination of Gould by the Commissioner of Taxation in a number of tax appeals in the Federal Court.
Struggling mining firm Griffin Coal has been ordered to pay $5.1 million to liquidators of a collapsed mining services company after a judge found it had breached a contractual term not to trade while insolvent.
Nine Network, Seven Network and the Australian Broadcasting Corporation have won a temporary injunction barring the Civil Aviation Safety Authority from declaring the area above the Melbourne CBD to be a restricted area in response to anti-lockdown and anti-vaccine protests that have disrupted the city.
Iconic Australian beer manufacturer Carlton & United Breweries has lost an appeal seeking to shield information about 1,500 allegedly privileged documents from the Australian Taxation Office.
Auctus Resources will not be able to hang on to a $2.3 million R&D tax offset refund which the Full Court found was paid by mistake, after the High Court turned down its special leave application.
The right approach to determining patentability of a computer-implemented invention is to first assess whether it is more than a mere scheme or business method, the Full Federal Court has been told in an appeal of a ruling backing IP Australia's revocation of two patents by plumbing company Repipe.