The builder of an allegedly defective Haymarket apartment building has lost an appeal of a decision which found that separate breaches of statutory building warranties do not create individual causes of action.
The Australian Securities and Investments Commission is fighting a challenge by three KordaMentha partners to the regulatorās decision to allow insurer Atradius to subject them to public examination over their administration of failed steel giant Arrium.
A judge has refused Nineās bid to file a defence which he found was replete with unsupported allegations against Euro Pacific Bank boss Peter Schiff, but has given the broadcaster another chance to argue that defamatory allegations it made against Schiff in a 60 Minutes episode were true.
Fund manager Pendal Group has fended off calls to produce documents two months out from trial in a case by a portfolio manager who alleges he was threatened with termination while on stress leave, and later made redundant.
The authorised representative of forex broker Union Standard can’t exclude parts of an opinion by an ASIC-appointed expert in a case alleging it traded in margin products with Chinese clients despite knowing it was illegal under Chinese law.
The Fair Work Commission has upheld the firing of a Melbourne University professor who was found to have pursued an inappropriate personal relationship with a former employee who later complained she had been āgroomedā.
A sex discrimination case by the only female partner at global tech research company Information Services Group has been discontinued after a judge panned the “ludicrous” number of witnesses expected to give evidence.
Car electronics company Directed Electronics has challenged a ruling that partially dismissed its case over the alleged misappropriation of trade secrets by a former manager, who was found to have pocketed $3.6 million in commissions through a secret agreement with rival Hanhwa.
Construction firm CIMIC has won its bid to view identifying information about institutional investors in a shareholder class action, despite the applicant’s claims it could deter group members from signing on to the case.Ā
The High Court has rejected dam services provider Sunwater’s request that it weigh in on a dispute over insurance coverage for aĀ $440 million class action settlement with victims of the 2010-2011 floods in Queensland.