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Medibank has criticised a judge’s finding that legal professional privilege did not attach to a Deloitte report commissioned in the wake of a massive data breach, arguing she came to an “illogical” conclusion.
The High Court has dismissed Sunshine Loans' second attempt to have a judge recuse himself from a penalty hearing in ASIC’s case against the payday lender, despite his criticism of a witness due to give further evidence.
A court has ordered Macquarie Securities to pay an agreed $35 million penalty after finding that “serious deficiencies" in its reporting systems resulted in repeated failures to accurately report short sales.
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Sydney builder Next Constructions has accused a former employee and his wife of procuring $700,000 in secret profits by allegedly directing subcontractors to pay a company they controlled.
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A director of collapsed builder Shangri-La Construction who was found personally liable for $3.2 million in rectification costs for combustible cladding in a Melbourne apartment complex has failed to pass on his costs to his insurers.
The liquidators of an unregistered managed investment scheme run by convicted fraudster Chris Marco have fended off a summary dismissal application by investors, with a judge finding that it was not so obvious that they would be entitled to a good faith defence to warrant tossing the case.
Real estate data company BCI has slammed US analytics company CoreLogic’s "desperate" objection to a second data set in their data scraping fight, saying it's an attempt to cut off one mode of proving loss.
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An appeals court ruling has confirmed that non-contracting owners must prove their own loss to claim defect damages under warranties in the Domestic Building Contracts Act.
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The operator of Sydney's InterContinental Hotel, which is challenging approval of a development in Macquarie Street, can't rely in its case on an engineering report showing the alleged threat to the structural integrity of a hotel driveway.
A member of a wealthy shipping dynasty and former INXS manager Maria-Christina Perez de la Sala must go back to the drawing board in her case staking a claim to her father’s estate, after a court struck out most of her case.