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A judge has barred a retired Moore Stephens partner from bringing all but a single claim against a former colleague who allegedly failed to account to the partnership for unauthorised profit in excess of $11 million.
A judge has ruled that oil company Inpex can call on a $467 million bank guarantee in its contract battle with Korean shipbuilder Daewoo over the contentious Ichthys LNG project off the coast of Western Australia.
Builder J Hutchinson and the CFMEU have been fined a combined $1.35 million for entered into an anti-competitive agreement to boycott an independent subcontractor at a construction site in Brisbane.
The special purpose receiver acting for debenture holders of defunct Banksia Securities was right to reject a confidential settlement -- believed to be for $10.6 million -- offered by the disgraced lawyers behind a scandal-ridden class action, a court has found.
A judge has granted the liquidators of Cornerstone Investment Australia leave to sign a funding agreement for the insolvent tertiary education provider’s $56 million professional negligence claim against accounting firm PricewaterhouseCoopers.
Nine sports presenter Erin Molan has won a substantial payout from the Daily Mail over an article concerning an on-air remark she made about the pronunciation of National Rugby League Polynesian player names, despite failing to prove the story painted her as a racist.
A judge has fined superannuation fund promoter MobiSuper and licensee ZIB Financial $250,000 for misleading marketing calls.
The entity that employs the workforce of the On The Run convenience store chain has agreed to pay $5.8 million to settle a class action accusing it of underpaying over 8,000 workers over a six-year period.
An appeals court has found that two former executives of collapsed electronics retailer Dick Smith should pay the company’s receivers $11.8 million in damages for approving a dividend payment the company could not afford.
Aussie group fitness chain Body Fit Training Company has been hit with a $3.2 million lawsuit for allegedly breaching an equipment supply agreement and diverting supplier Gym Imports' rights as part of the $64.2 million sale of its business to US-based Xponential Fitness last year.