Corrs Chambers Westgarth picks up leading silk, six partners from MinterEllison

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Corrs Chambers Westgarth is on a hiring spree, with the appointment of commercial litigation silk Charles Scerri QC and six corporate partners from MinterEllison.

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Crown, James Packer liable for $326,000 Workcover payment to assaulted security guard, court told

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Victoria’s Workcover has sued Crown and its major shareholder James Packer to recoup the compensation insurance it paid to a security guard who was allegedly assaulted by Packer on New Year’s Eve 2015.

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Ex-Quantum boss pleads guilty to market manipulation, insider trading

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Former Quantum Resources CEO and director Avrohom Kimelman faces up to 20 years in jail after pleading guilty to charges of insider trading and conspiring to manipulate the market in shares of the company, now known as Nova Minerals.

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Caffitaly wins reversal of invalidity ruling on coffee pod patent

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Coffee capsule machine manufacturer Caffitaly has saved one of its coffee pod patents from a finding of invalidity, in a partially successful appeal of a ruling that stripped three of its patents from the Australian register.

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‘Foolish and dangerous’: Committee roasts proposed changes to continuous disclosure laws

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A Senate committee has issued a vehement denunciation of the Morrison government’s proposal to permanently weaken the country’s continuous disclosure regime, calling the plan “foolish and dangerous”.

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Why ‘sticking to her guns’ on common fund orders paid off for Allens’ Kirsty Prinsloo

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According to close family and friends, Allens managing associate Kirsty Prinsloo’s argumentative nature destined her for a career in the law.

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After triumphing in beauty parade, Maurice Blackburn seeks stay of PFM’s Boral class action

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After winning a three-way contest to lead a shareholder class action against construction giant Boral, Maurice Blackburn is seeking to stay a competing class action by Phi Finney McDonald that was allowed to continue as a closed class action.

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Court finds trader was defamed by ASIC but throws out $10M lawsuit

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Canadian trader Daniel Schlaepfer has suffered a loss in his $10 million defamation case against ASIC, with an appeals court tossing the lawsuit despite finding the regulator defamed him and his firm by accusing them of unlawful market manipulation.

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Ken Talbot’s widow can’t represent daughters in negligence case against Arnold Bloch Leibler

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The widow of mining executive Ken Talbot has lost a bid to act for two of her daughters in a  negligence case over the handling of her late husband’s estate against law firms Arnold Bloch Leibler and Boyd Legal, with a judge finding claims by the mother and daughters were “directly competing and contrary”.

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Mayfair 101’s James Mawhinney says he should not face penalty in ASIC case

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The founder of embattled investment group Mayfair 101, James Mawhinney, will argue that he should not be ordered to pay any penalty after the company was found to have misled investors about its financial products.

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