The receivers of Sydney fraudster Melissa Caddick’s estate have reached an agreement with her husband on a small pool of remaining assets in dispute that will see half of her teenaged son’s sneaker collection sold to repay defrauded investors.
Optus has lost its fight to keep a class action from accessing an independent report by consulting giant Deloitte into last year’s major data breach.
ANZ is facing proceedings by a shareholder who wants the bank to turn over documents related to its risk management systems in response to concerns it is increasing loans to fossil fuel companies and failing to properly address climate change risks.
A leading class action firm may seek compensation for those who were illegally detained after the High Court ruled that Australia’s system of holding individuals indefinitely in immigration detention is unlawful.
Though the origins of this growing breeziness with the court are unknown, the increasing informality of correspondence with her chambers has so irked a judge she has taken to task the lawyers responsible for one galling example.
Save (0) Please login to bookmark Close Username or Email Address Password Remember Me A tribunal in Western Australia has clarified the law surrounding the appointment of managers to legal practices, finding that more than one manager can be appointed at the same time. In a decision handed down on Monday, the State Administrative Tribunal…
The government of India has flagged a possible special leave application if it loses its appeal of a decision finding it can’t avoid a $111.3 million arbitral award in a dispute with three Mauritian companies that invested in Indian satellites because it waived its foreign state immunity.
Superannuation fund trustee H.E.S.T Australia has paid a $48,600 fine after being slapped with three infringement notices by the corporate regulator over alleged misleading statements in Facebook and Instagram ads.
New High Court Chief Justice Stephen Gageler was lauded by a group of legal luminaries at a swearing in ceremony, where he was described as the “unbackable favourite” for the country’s highest legal post and “the judge’s judge”.
The federal government has announced a review into a nationwide Optus outage that left millions of customers without coverage and affected triple zero calls.
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