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Building façade company Sharvain, which went under last month, owes major builders $54 million, according to a judgment pushing out the date for a creditors meeting.

A judge has allowed Perth Airport to amend its case against sublessee Airservices over alleged groundwater contamination from the use of firefighting foam, finding that allowing the airport to describe PFAS chemicals as "potentially toxic" would not render the case ambiguous.

Details of a settlement with AIG in a class action by investors in failed Linchpin reveal the insurer has paid out all of a $10 million policy and will hand over another $2.15 million in interest and costs.

ACCC commissioner Liza Carver is leaving the regulator just three years into a five-year tenure, at a time of a noticeable drop in enforcement by the competition cop under Gina Cass-Gottlieb.

Port logistics giant Qube has won the ACCC's blessing to buy port operations provider MIRRAT under the condition that it agree to not discriminate against downstream competitors at the Port of Melbourne.

The High Court won't hear an appeal by a creditor of collapsed forestry giant Gunns Plantations seeking to toss winding up proceedings brought after it failed to pay back $1.2 million in unfair preferences. 

The CEO of litigation funder Woodsford told a female director to swallow her "pride and ego" and make way for a younger, male collague, a new lawsuit claims.

Westpac is arguing timelines prepared by law firm Allens are privileged and should not be handed over in a shareholder class action over its alleged lax compliance with anti-money laundering laws.

Applicants in class actions against Hyundai and Kia over alleged defective braking will pay the car manufacturers' costs incurred for abandoned appeals, despite arguing the appeals were overtaken by subsequent events.

Tabcorp's ex-boss, who was found to have been forced out over alleged offensive language, says his coerced resignation was inconsistent with a boardroom history of condoning off-colour remarks.