Law firm Atanaskovic Hartnell has failed to postpone its appeal of a ruling over unpaid legal fees until after its senior counsel — who is stuck in London — can get a COVID-19 vaccine and return to Australia.
The Australian Securities and Investments Commission presented its misleading and deceptive conduct case against companies in the Mayfair Group in an undefended trial on Monday, while the beleaguered investment group’s director watched the online proceedings as a muted observer.
Counsel for Queensland-based NQCranes has lashed out at the ACCC for seeking to amend its cartel action against the crane company, telling a court the regulator had been warned for months that the case was deficient.
Two shareholders of failed Arrium Group have secured leave from the High Court to challenge a ruling that nixed their planned examination of a former director to bolster a class action over the collapse of the steel producer.
Lawyers representing Bluescope in an appeal of a Fair Work case copped a scolding by a judge Thursday for sending multiple emails to his chambers “pressuring” his associate to provide dates for a hearing.
A barrister for a Sydney criminal lawyer who wears hearing aids and is suing News Corp’s Nationwide News over allegedly defamatory Daily Telegraph articles referring to his profound deafness has likened the stories to accusing bespectacled lawyers of being blind.
London is in a “complete state of chaos” and no amount of pressing by law firm Moray & Agnew has produced an answer from underwriters about the extent of his insurance coverage, former Linchpin Capital Group CEO Peter Daly has said in a three-paragraph defence to disqualification proceedings by the corporate regulator.
Crown Resorts should not have a licence to run the Barangaroo casino in Sydney after facilitating money laundering and partnering with junket operators linked to organised crime, a report following the NSW gaming authority inquiry has found.
Macquarie Bank is challenging a ruling that it pay $330,000 in pecuniary penalties after it was found to have underpaid a group of former financial advisers because of a “defective and deficient” payment system.
Investment house Washington H. Soul Pattinson is fighting a ruling that it owes its former finance director over $1.1 million in damages after the ASX 100-listed firm terminated the executive without notice and failed to pay out entitlements.