A judge has upheld ASIC’s privilege claim over a solicitor’s notes from an interview with a tech start-up boss involved in the ASX program to replace its CHESS system.
ASIC has asked a court to hit Westpac with a $30 million penalty for IT failures which caused financial hardship applications to be ignored, conduct a judge has described as “shocking” and “truly scandalous”.
Companies can expect to pay 60 per cent more to rent out floors with views in Sydney’s premium office towers, according to a report by commercial real estate broker CBRE.
Toyota Finance has been hit with a class action alleging customers paid thousands for ‘junk’ add-on insurance, on the heels of a law firm’s unsuccessful bid to add the claims to an existing class action over flex commissions.
Developer Thousand Hills Property has won an appeal in its fight with LBA Capital over a scuttled property deal for NDIS housing, with an appeals court accepting that LBA repudiated the deal in an email sent by its former director.
Real estate funds manager Centuria Capital Group has taken advantage of surging investment demand, selling three industrial assets in southern Queensland for an average sales premium of 25 per cent.
The NSW government has granted mine operator Glencore permission to run the Ulan coal mine until 2035, allowing for the extraction of an additional 18.8 million tonnes of coal, despite net zero targets on the horizon.