The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has secured declarations in its case against a Sargon Capital subsidiary, which partnered with a superfund promoter accused of misleading customers in marketing calls.
Forum Group director Bill Papas intends to return to Australia to face $400 million fraud allegations but doesn’t have the funds for a flight home, his lawyer told the Federal Court Wednesday.
A green activist who filed a group proceeding alleging the government failed to disclose the impacts of climate change to investors in sovereign bonds does not have a common interest with group members and should have her lawsuit declassed, a court has heard.
Confidential portions of the ABC’s defence in the former Attorney-General Christian Porter’s defamation case can be disclosed to the South Australian State Coroner as part of his investigation into the circumstances surrounding the death of Porter’s alleged rape victim.
A witness for two Nine-owned newspapers sued by Ben Roberts-Smith has been accused of fabricating a story that the war veteran kicked his step-uncle off a cliff before ordering him to be shot to gain compensation from the Afghanistan Independent Human Rights Commission.
A judge has grudgingly agreed to allow a law firm to run an investor’s case against S&P Global over ratings on toxic financial products separately from a class action that makes the same claims, but was warned of the “costs consequences” of the parallel proceedings.
US law firm White & Case has bolstered its presence in the Asia-Pacific region with the appointment of international arbitration lawyer Lee Carroll as a partner in Melbourne.
The government of the Northern Territory will pay $35 million to settle a class action on behalf of 1,200 young people who allegedly suffered human rights abuses while they were in detention, including excessive force, handcuffing, strip searching and isolation in cells.
A leading silk who has been representing Crown Resorts in royal commission and class action proceedings, as well as ASIC in its high-stakes insider trading case against Westpac, has been elevated to the Victoria Supreme Court.
Australian soldiers who raided a village in Afghanistan were “infidels” and the people they killed were “martyrs”, an Afghan villager related to a man allegedly murdered by veteran Ben Roberts-Smith has told a court.
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