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After selling his $26 million Rose Bay mansion to AsheMorgan principal Michael Rothner in 2023, options trader David Waterhouse has levied allegations of “deliberate bad faith conduct”, on the first day of trial in a case over the mysterious removal of trees on a neighbouring property.
A class action on behalf of thousands of victims of the December 2019 Cudlee Creek bushfire has reached a confidential settlement with two individuals, while claims worth $200 million against SA Power Networks have proceeded to trial.
The parties in a class action against agricultural giant GrainCorp over alleged noise and odour pollution from a factory in rural Victoria have failed to seal the deal on a settlement reached last month.
Former senior barrister Norman O’Bryan has pleaded not guilty to two criminal charges in connection with his role as counsel for the Banksia Securities class action.
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Boroondara City Council has told a court that builder ADCO was “particularly motivated” to not provide a parent company guarantee under a $59 million contract to develop the Kew Recreation Centre after the roof of the building collapsed during the construction.
Former ANZ trader Etienne Alexiou has admitted during cross-examination that lewd messages sent to other bankers through Bloomberg’s messaging platform were inappropriate and could cause offence.
ANZ can't call its former group chief risk officer — now a strategic advisor for Clayton Utz — to give evidence as it defends a whistleblower case by former trader Etienne Alexiou.
A class action alleging negligent management by the Murray Darling Basin Authority can amend their case four weeks into trial, with a judge finding the late application was not the result of a “deliberate forensic decision”.
The public body in charge of managing the Murray Darling’s water resources has slammed as "incoherent" a class action's claims that it owes a duty of care to protect farmers and irrigators against economic loss.
On the first day of trial, a court has heard a class action over alleged negligent management of water flowing through the Murray Darling system is a “world away” from a climate change class action that recently failed at trial.