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Investor class action can’t see Virgin’s advice from Herbert Smith Freehills
Class Actions 2024-07-23 11:40 pm By Cindy Cameronne

A judge has rejected arguments that Virgin Australia waived legal professional privilege over advice from Herbert Smith Freehills by claiming in a class action defence that it had a reasonable belief that statements in a prospectus for a $324 million capital raising were not misleading.

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Virgin bondholders say indemnity unlawfully holding up class action
Class Actions 2023-12-15 10:43 pm By Cindy Cameronne

An investor class action against Virgin Australia has mounted a new challenge to a contentious indemnity clause, which the airline claims entitles it to receive periodic payments for its legal costs in defending the claims.

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Judge pauses Virgin’s cross-claim in bondholders class action
Class Actions 2023-10-26 11:58 pm By Sam Matthews

The judge hearing a bondholders class action against Virgin Australia has deferred the resolution of the airline’s cross-claim seeking seeking periodic payments from the class action to cover its costs under a contentious indemnity clause.

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Pitcher Partners loses second bid to toss $127M Twigg family lawsuit
Professional Negligence 2023-08-23 3:40 pm By Cindy Cameronne

Pitcher Partners has lost its appeal of a decision that refused to stay a lawsuit over the accounting firm’s alleged involvement in race car driver Max Twigg’s misappropriation of $127 million from his family. 

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Judge blasts Pitcher Partners’ ‘terrible’ argument in $127M appeal against Twigg family
Appeals 2023-07-25 11:26 pm By Cindy Cameronne

An appeals court has taken Pitcher Partners to task in its appeal seeking to throw out a lawsuit over the accounting firm’s alleged involvement in race car driver Max Twigg’s misappropriation of $127 million from his family. 

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BCC can bring claims against three Greensill units
Insurance 2023-03-30 4:16 pm By Cindy Cameronne

Insurer Bond & Credit Company has overcome an administrator’s protests and won leave to bring cross-claims against three Greensill entities in lawsuits over the financing firm’s $1.7 billion collapse.

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Pitcher Partners can’t toss claims in $127M fight with Twigg family
Accounting 2023-02-20 10:57 pm By Sam Matthews

Accounting firm Pitcher Partners has lost an application to dismiss a $127 million lawsuit by the family of race car driver Max Twigg as an abuse of process, with a judge rejecting its claim that the proceedings were deliberately delayed.

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IAG agent at heart of controversial Greensill funding wins more time for defence
Insurance 2022-08-10 2:09 pm By Cindy Cameronne

Fired underwriter Greg Brereton has been granted an extension to respond to lawsuits targeting Insurance Australia Group over trade credit policies covering $4.6 billion in loans issued by collapsed Greensill Capital. 

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‘Serious allegations’ against Pitcher Partners to be heard in NSW
Accounting 2022-08-05 10:02 pm By Cindy Cameronne

A judge has denied a bid by accounting firm Pitcher Partners to transfer a $127 million lawsuit brought by the Twigg family, saying he was best placed to hear “serious allegations” the firm helped race car driver Max Twigg give a false understanding of his company’s assets.

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HWL Ebsworth prevails in appeal of negligence case over Willoughby development
Professional Negligence 2021-12-15 5:29 pm By Bianca Hrovat

An appeals court has dismissed an appeal in a professional negligence lawsuit by a New South Wales developer against HWL Ebsworth over a due diligence report that led to the purchase of a $25.5 million parcel of government land at risk of flooding.

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