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Developer loses tax dispute over $120M Alphington Paper Mill site
A developer has lost a $18 million dispute with the Victorian revenue office over duties for purchasing the Alphington Paper Mill, which it plans to develop into a new mini-suburb with 2,500 homes. 
Richard Pratt’s daughter gets second shot at slice of family fortune
A daughter of the late Visy tycoon Richard Pratt has won another shot at a piece of the multi-billion-dollar family fortune.
Dover Financial, ex-director mull lawsuit against ASIC
Defunct financial advisory firm Dover Financial and its former director have taken ASIC to court seeking discovery as they mull a potential lawsuit against the corporate regulator.
Judge orders penalties of $1.4M in ASIC’s case against Dover Financial
A judge has ordered that defunct Dover Financial Advisors and its former director pay $1.4 million in penalties for creating a misleading client protection policy he described as “an exercise in Orwellian doublespeak.”
Dover ignored lawyers’ warnings about ‘misleading’ client policy, court hears
Former Dover Financial director Terry McMaster on Monday admitted to personally drafting a so-called client protection policy described by a judge as an "exercise in Orwellian doublespeak", as the court heard evidence that the defunct financial firm ignored red flags raised by two law firms about the policy.
ASIC wins case over options trader’s ‘deliberate deception’
ASIC has chalked up a victory in a long-running case against a Marshall Islands-based binary options trader, with a judge finding the trader engaged in the "deliberate deception of vulnerable people".
Geelong sues fundraising firm claiming affiliation with the Cats
The Geelong Football Club has launched Federal Court proceedings against a promotional firm it claims passed itself off as the famous AFL club in order to procure payments from members.
Appeal filed in Fairlight synthesiser trade mark dispute
Keyboard specialist PKT Technologies has returned for an encore in a six-year long trade mark dispute, appealing a $384,000 judgment against it for violating a trade mark licence agreement with engineer Peter Vogel, inventor of the groundbreaking synthesiser behind some of 80s pop music's most iconic sounds.