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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.