The ATO has won its challenge to a finding that it waived privilege over draft expert reports in an email referring to its contents, with a court saying disclosure of the substance of information is not per se inconsistent with maintaining privilege.
HSBC has hit back at ASIC’s claims that it failed to protect customers from scams, denying it breached its legislative duties despite admitting some of the regulator’s allegations concerning its compliance with the ePayments code, a voluntary code of conduct.
Gaming company Light & Wonder has hit back at Aristocrat’s intellectual property case, arguing that allegedly confidential information about the popular Dragon Link poker game was not trade secrets.
The engineers that provided design services for Victoria’s West Gate tunnel project have sued software provider Midas, alleging it used the wrong formula to calculate stiffness in bridge designs.
Sharvain Façades has won extra time to convene a second creditors’ meeting to pursue a $3.28 million win against Roberts Co, but not based on the argument that SOPA says its liquidation would bar enforcement of the judgment.
The NSW Land and Environment Court has approved a plan to demolish an apartment building in the harbour-side Sydney suburb of Rushcutters Bay to make way for luxury apartments.
A dispute over a scuppered transaction between the director of collapsed Keystone and the owner of the Marriott Hotel in Venice has been settled.
Pub owner O’Hara Hotel Group has sold the Parkurst Tavern in Rockhampton to a privately owned Queensland pub group for a reported price of $24 million.
The NSW Independent Commission Against Corruption will conduct public hearings next month as part of its investigation in whether Transport for NSW employees awarded contracts to certain suppliers in exchange for benefits.
Clayton Utz has boosted the expertise in its risk advisory practice, hiring a trio of lawyers from CBA and A&O Shearman.
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