The state of Western Australia has been left with a $2 million legal bill for defending a defamation action by billionaire Clive Palmer and advancing cross-claims on behalf of premier Mark McGowan, which a judge blasted as “a futile exercise”.
The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission has given the green light to Endeavour Group’s acquisition of the Beachfront Hotel north of Darwin after the Dan Murphy’s owner agreed to divest a nearby bottle shop.
Insider trading charges against former Vocus chairman Vaughan Bowen have been discharged, fifteen months after they were brought.
Law firm Holding Redlich has been sued by the NSW Labor Party for allegedly providing negligent advice on $100,000 in illegal political donations delivered in an Aldi bag and the ICAC investigation that followed, setting the party back $1.8 million in legal costs.
The decision by Crikey to republish an article at the centre of a defamation case by Fox News CEO Lachlan Murdoch is the focus of the media mogul’s proposed new pleadings and its application to join Private Media chairman Eric Beecher and CEO Will Hayward.
The founder of investment group Mayfair 101 must foot half his costs of a successful appeal of a 20-year ban on fund raising because of the many “spurious” grounds of appeal he pressed.
A lawyer who was found guilty of professional misconduct for failing to pay $23,000 in fees to senior counsel has won a bid to access a report relating to the silk’s health on appeal.
A judge has granted the Pokemon Company’s request for a temporary injunction restraining an Australian business from developing an augmented reality game featuring its popular Pokemon characters and selling related NFTs.
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