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Westpac will recoup the majority of proceeds from the $29.6 million sale of collapsed fintech Sargon Group, with a judge calling the company's liquidators "anxious sellers" who sold at speed and well below market value.
A judge overseeing Ben Roberts-Smith's defamation case against Fairfax has refused a bid by the publisher to bolster its defence with further allegations of criminal conduct by the soldier, who told the court Friday former Governor-General Quentin Bryce will give evidence for him at the upcoming trial.
Ben Roberts-Smith has raised “serious concerns” in his defamation case against Fairfax that the media company may have unlawfully published classified material he allegedly buried in his backyard, with the war veteran asking for an explanation of where it came from.
The judge who vowed last year to move a criminal cartel case over a $2.5 billion ANZ share placement to trial "before we all retire" will soon weigh the ACCC's claim for privilege over statements from JPMorgan witnesses it has been accused of pressuring during its investigation, two months after a different judge heard a still unresolved privilege fight in the long-running case.
DLA Piper has snagged a leading technology partner from rival MinterEllison to join its intellectual property and technology practice.
Slater & Gordon has argued discovery is becoming “unduly onerous” in a cross-claim filed by Arnold Bloch Leibler in a class action accusing the law firm of breaching its duty of care by greenlighting Slate & Gordon’s $1.2 billion acquisition of Quindell.
Victoria's gaming regulator may seek to block access by a shareholder class action against Crown Resorts to transcripts of interviews with Crown employees about a Chinese gambling crackdown that resulted in the jailing of 19 employees in 2016.
News publishers facing a defamation suit by Ben Roberts-Smith have called on the war veteran to explain alleged "deliberate concealment" of documents relevant to the case, as the Australian Federal Police reveals they are investigating claims he buried evidence.
A judge has slashed security for costs sought in a case brought by the liquidators of engineering and construction company Forge Group after the former directors targeted in the action failed to explain why they had retained multiple law firms.
A judge has ordered the lead applicant in a shareholder class action against G8 Education to disclose a previously redacted clause of a costs agreement to the childcare centre operator, saying he failed to show how supplying the information would give G8 a tactical advantage in the case.