Crown Melbourne is not presently suitable to hold a casino licence in Victoria, counsel assisting the royal commission into the casino operator said Tuesday.
Thorn Group is the latest lender ensnared in an alleged $400 million fraud by Forum Finance, with potential funds of up to $2.2 million tied up in the collapsed equipment leasing firm.
Melbourne-based joint venture Shepparton Partners Collective has appealed a $1.2 million judgment which found it infringed software developer QAD’s copyright by failing to pay a transfer fee to retain the licence after it acquired the iconic SPC Ardmona cannery in Victoria from Coca-Cola Amatil for $40 million.
Four witnesses who allegedly saw Ben Roberts-Smith kick a handcuffed man off a cliff in Afghanistan will give evidence next week in the war veteranās defamation trial, which has been disrupted by COVID-19 restrictions in NSW.
Merck Sharp & Dohme has filed a lawsuit accusing rival drug company Bristol-Myers Squibb of misusing its market power by restricting access to a treatment program for stage IV melanoma patients.
A judge has found former NSW Labor Ministers Ian McDonald and Eddie Obeid, as well as Obeid’s son Moses, guilty of conspiring to rig a tender process for a coal mining exploration licence on the Obeids’ land in the Bylong Valley.
A former managing director of global drug giant Apotex is suing his old employer over $226,000 in bonuses and $175,000 in leave he claims were not paid when he was made redundant in September 2019.
Mosaic Brands has appealed a ruling ordering it to comply with a request for documents from theĀ Australian Communications and Media Authority over its potential violations of the Spam Act.
Clive Palmer will seek special leave from the High Court to appeal a ruling from the Queensland Court of Appeal ordering him to return $102 million borrowed before the collapse of Queensland Nickel in 2016, and has demanded that the company’s liquidators return the money he paid following the ruling.
A judge has questioned the legal disbursements sought to be approved in a $30 million class action settlement against Westpac over allegedly excessive life insurance premiums, particularly the “extraordinarily large” barrister fees charged in the case.