Newcastle University has hit back at a class action over an unaccredited engineering degree, saying students can still get jobs and it is a simple “administrative” task to become members of the professional body for engineers.
A court has heard that the former CEO of juice company Nudie is “very unwell” and needs more time to file a defence in a case stemming from an alleged fraudulent tax scheme, a week after a judge tossed his summary dismissal bid in a related case.
The Trump Organization is planning its first development in Australia, signing an agreement to build a 91-storey luxury hotel on the Gold Coast.
The daughter of a Villawood director accused of a fraudulent design to divert valuable management fees for a development in Victoria has invoked her privilege against self-incrimination over the developer’s concerns that she may have destroyed evidence.
A suit against the City of Sydney and Transport for New South Wales alleging that a new cycleway on Oxford Street is discriminatory has been gutted, with a court substantially striking out the pleading.
A Centennial Coal unit that operates an underground coal mine bordering the Blue Mountains National Park has been hit with $630,000 in penalties after pleading guilty to five environmental offences for failing to properly manage runoff from the mine.
In a sign of recovery for Melbourne’s commercial property market, developer Bill McNee’s Vicland has sold St Germain in Toorak to Spotlight Property Group.
Healthcare equipment company Ansell has won default judgment against an unknown threat actor behind an October data breach, with a judge citing similar orders made following a cyberattack against law firm HWL Ebsworth.
An investment manager sentenced to a six-year prison term for trading on confidential information taken from the computer of Platinum Asset Management’s chairman has lodged an appeal.
Corporates, regulators and lawyers alike will be poring over the Federal Court’s reasons on Monday for dismissing a pivotal greenwashing case against gas giant Santos, but experts say the 250-page judgment is unlikely to deter further litigation.
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