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Private equity firm Goldstone has lost its bid to lodge an appeal before damages are determined, after a judge found it invalidly terminated its managing director’s employment for standing in the way of a deal with her business partner’s son.
An appeals court has thrown out X Corp’s legal challenge to a compliance notice issued by the eSafety Commissioner to corporate predecessor Twitter over child exploitation material monitoring on its platform.
Nicholas Bolton has lost his challenge to Keybridge Capital’s move to remove him from the board of confectionary group Yowie, after he was found to have been validly removed as the CEO of Keybridge in March.
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A company owned by pub baron and former KPMG partner Jon Adgemis has lost its bid to set aside a $5 million default judgment over a 2020 loan agreement.
Not cowed by threats of a legal challenge, the Albanese government has announced that it will be including Google's YouTube in its world-first social media ban for children under the age of 16.
The law firm behind a class action against Origin Energy wants a 35 per cent contingency fee, arguing that a string of defeats in shareholders cases has “accentuated the uncertainty and complexities” of proving loss.
Carnival has lost an appeal of a finding in a class action that it was negligent in preventing a COVID-19 outbreak aboard the Ruby Princess cruise ship, but an appeal by the applicant over damages has also failed.
A defects class action against Ford, which has been on foot since 2016, might end up at the High Court for a second time, a court has heard.
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A judge has ordered the sales proceeds of Western Sydney properties linked to former Dyldam director Sam Fayad to be paid into court, saying there was an arguable case that the sales were intended to defraud creditors.
Actor Rebel Wilson has been sued by a UK production company that co-produced her film The Deb, claiming she "deliberately undermined” the movie’s distribution.