The financial crimes regulator has ordered the Australian unit of the world’s largest crypto exchange, Binance, to appoint an external auditor after flagging concerns about its anti-money laundering and counter-terrorism financing compliance.
Journalist Lisa Wilkinson has told a court her qualified privilege defence was wrongly rejected in ex-Liberal staffer Bruce Lehrmann’s defamation case, arguing the trial judge focused too heavily on the Network Ten’s reporting of the difficulties Brittany Higgins faced in reporting the rape at the centre of the case.
A class action against Blue Sky Alternative Investments won’t seek to transfer the case to contingency fee-friendly Victoria despite a High Court ruling that put the kibosh on solicitors’ common fund orders.
A court has found no legal error in a regulator’s decision to approve Woodside’s environmental plan for its Scarborough gas project in Western Australia, finding the company was not required to specify what would be an acceptable level of emissions.
Under investigation by US class action firms for a stock price crash that followed last week’s announcement of a profit drop, Australian building materials giant James Hardie may also face the glare of homegrown law firms.
Save (0) Please login to bookmark Close Username or Email Address Password Remember Me Global pharmaceutical company Novartis has become the latest tenant at Lendlease’s Victoria Cross Tower in North Sydney. Novartis ANZ will set up shop across one floor of the building, occupying 1,700 square metres in the mid-rise of the building, Lendlease said…
The administrators of the New South Wales Cyprus Community club can sell an inner Western Sydney property of “substantial value”, with a judge finding they are not subject to a condition under the Registered Clubs Act.
The Queensland Commissioner of State Revenue has lost an appeal against the Montessori Children’s Foundation after it refused the organisation’s bid to be registered as a charity to avoid property taxes.
Five passengers who were forced off a Qatar Airways flight and strip searched at Doha International Airport have taken their case to the High Court after a finding that Qatar’s aviation authority was immune from the suit.
Online trading platform IG Markets must pay over $5.5 million in damages to a customer, with a court finding a contract term that purportedly allowed it to reverse transactions made in error was unfair.
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