Auditor BDO has hit back at a negligence suit by Dubber over $26.6 million in alleged missing funds, making proportionate liability claims against the software company’s former CEO and external solicitor, who is said to have disbursed company funds “wrongly and in breach of trust”.
Brittany Higgins has reportedly dropped her appeal of a judgment that ordered her to pay $315,000 in damages for defaming her former boss Linda Reynolds with social media posts that implied the ex-Liberal senator mishandled her rape allegations against Bruce Lehrmann.
IP boutique Davies Collison Cave has brought proceedings against its Melbourne landlord at the Orica House, seeking a declaration that it has not abandoned its lease.
The NSW government entity overseeing the development of ‘Australia’s newest city’ in Western Sydney has filed court proceedings against Superloop unit VostroNet, the network provider on the billion dollar project.
Iplex Pipelines has argued builder BGC should hand over documents relating to its estimate that it will cost $123 million to fix homes it claims were fitted with faulty pipes manufactured by the Fletcher Building unit.
The Victorian government has chosen a John Holland-led consortium as its preferred bidder to build three new underground stations as part of Melbourne’s Suburban Rail Loop project.
An upscale health and wellness facility in Melbourne’s eastern suburbs has been sold to a private investor for $24.65 million.
The corporate regulator has banned a MWL Financial adviser for eight years for recommending clients park the bulk of their superannuation into Keystone’s high-risk Shield Master Fund, which has since collapsed.
ASX-traded Structural Monitoring Systems has been barred from sacking its CEO after he launched whistleblower proceedings against the aerospace company.
A $175 million deal struck to resolve 30 class actions on behalf of junior doctors in Victoria has earned the approval of a judge, who took the unusual course of dispensing with a court hearing on the settlement.
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