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Judge won’t recuse himself from harassment case over GoFundMe
Employment 2025-10-20 11:52 pm By Julia Kanapathippillai Sydney
A judge has refused to recuse himself from a sexual harassment case against the Western Australian Department of Justice after counsel for the department donated $500 to a GoFundMe for his brother-in-law.
WA biotech hit with $1.8M penalty for misleading market during pandemic
ASIC 2024-03-20 3:49 pm By Sam Matthews Melbourne
A judge has ordered Western Australian biotech Holista Colltech to pay a penalty of $1.8 million for making misleading representations to the market about sales of its natural sanitiser product during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, and hit its CEO with a four-year ban. 
Bankruptcy trustee can rip up agreement giving litigation funder 85%
Restructuring & Insolvency 2020-01-09 2:42 pm By Miklos Bolza Sydney
A court has allowed a bankruptcy trustee to drop an "extremely disadvantageous" litigation funding agreement, which provided the funder with an 85 per cent commission, previously signed to pursue a Perth-based engineering and construction company.