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StrongRoom AI unit warns creditors to sort out freezing orders fast
Restructuring & Insolvency 2025-04-03 4:57 pm By Sam Matthews

A unit of collapsed start-up StrongRoom AI has warned creditors of its parent company that recent freezing orders need to be tweaked to allow it to continue trading, or there may be little money left to argue over. 

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Regulator hikes up ANZ capital requirements to $1B amid risk concerns
Financial Services 2025-04-03 12:09 pm By Sam Matthews

APRA has increased ANZ’s capital add-on requirement by $250 million to account for operational risks, after a report highlighted “persistent and prevalent” problems at the bank. 

ACCC loses High Court appeal in CFMEU boycott case
High Court 2025-04-02 11:57 am By Sam Matthews

In a loss for the ACCC, the High Court has found builder J Hutchinson did not arrive at an anti-competitive understanding with the CFMEU merely by yielding to a threat of industrial action.

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JB Asset Management wins back funds from failed $395M development deal
Real Estate 2025-04-03 11:05 pm By Sam Matthews

JB Asset Management has clawed back $3 million from a scuttled real estate deal involving LBA Capital, almost a year after LBA’s director was jailed for fraud.

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Judge recuses herself from costs spat, citing associate’s relationship with lawyer
Appeals 2025-04-01 11:14 pm By Sam Matthews

A judge has recused herself from hearing a case in light of her associate’s “quasi familial relationship” with a lawyer caught up in the long-running dispute.

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Court asked to shut down Sofronoff’s challenge to corruption report
Public Corruption 2025-04-01 4:47 pm By Sam Matthews

The speaker of the legislative assembly of the ACT is seeking to shut down Walter Sofronoff’s legal challenge to a report which found he engaged in serious corrupt conduct in his inquiry into the prosecution of Bruce Lehrmann.

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WA public housing landlord points to ‘limited resources’ in class action defence
Class Actions 2025-04-01 11:53 pm By Sam Matthews

Western Australia and its public housing landlord have denied a class action’s allegations that Indigenous people living in remote communities were overcharged for substandard public housing.

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Public housing authority cites ‘limited resources’ in class action defence
Real Estate 2025-04-01 11:01 pm By Sam Matthews

Western Australia and its public housing landlord have hit back at a class action alleging Indigenous people in remote communities were overcharged for substandard public housing.

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Lesbian group seeks OK from Full Court to discriminate against trans women
Human Rights 2025-03-28 1:55 pm By Sam Matthews

A lesbian group is challenging the rejection of its bid to be exempt from anti-discrimination laws in order to bar trans women from its events, and wants the appeal heard by the same judges hearing a similar case.

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Use AI responsibly, says Federal Court’s top judge
Courts 2025-03-28 3:35 pm By Sam Matthews

The Federal Court’s Chief Justice has flagged a consultation process ahead of finalising a position on the use of artificial intelligence, telling lawyers to use it “in a responsible way” in the meantime.

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