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Shaw & Partners conspired with defecting Fortrend advisors to steal clients, suit says
Employment 2023-01-31 5:13 pm By Sam Matthews

Stock broker Fortrend Securities has filed a suit alleging wealth manager Shaw & Partners sent unsolicited welcome letters to clients as part of a scheme involving two former advisors.

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SMBC mulls new claims in $34M lawsuit over Forum Finance receivables
Financial Services 2023-01-31 3:34 pm By Cindy Cameronne

Japanese bank SMBC has foreshadowed an application to add claims against Humm Group after the fintech’s subsidiary allegedly misled the bank about receivables under contracts forged by a Forum Group entity.

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Recidivist CFMMEU dodges calls for penalty ‘towards the maximum’ in FWO case
FWO 2023-01-31 4:28 pm By Sam Matthews

A judge has rejected arguments by the Fair Work Ombudsman that the CFMMEU should be slugged with a penalty close to the maximum for the conduct of union officers who failed to show entry permits at a worksite, but she has imposed personal penalties against two officers with a record of prior breaches.

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Herald Sun publisher can include lawyer’s drug arrest in defamation defence
Media 2023-01-31 10:08 pm By Sam Matthews

The publisher of the Herald Sun has won a bid to include the drug-related arrest of a prominent Melbourne lawyer in its “bad reputation” defence to the solicitor’s defamation action.

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Judge ‘confused’ by ACCC’s rejection of $1.8B Telstra, TPG mobile network deal
Competition & Consumer Protection 2023-01-30 4:49 pm By Cindy Cameronne

The ACCC’s rejection of a regional network arrangement between Telstra and TPG was “confusing” and the telecos might be free to vary the transaction, says a judge who is overseeing a challenge to the competition regulator’s decision.

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Murdoch can add Crikey bosses to defamation case
Defamation 2023-01-30 3:47 pm By Sam Matthews

Fox News CEO Lachlan Murdoch has cited the “editorial interference” of Private Media chairman Eric Beecher and CEO Will Hayward in a successful bid to join them as defendants in his defamation case against the Crikey publisher over an article in June last year.

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BHP mine took adverse action against labour hire worker, judge finds
Employment 2023-01-30 6:24 pm By Cindy Cameronne

A judge has found a BHP mine took adverse action against a labour hire worker by excluding him from entering a Queensland mine after he complained about safety, rejecting arguments that the mine could not take adverse action because it did not employ the worker directly.

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‘Author of own misfortune’: Ex-BCEG directors can’t vary freezing orders after $12M judgment
Construction 2023-01-30 5:36 pm By Cindy Cameronne

Two former directors of the Australian unit of BCEG have lost their “urgent” bid to vary freezing orders after a judge found they swindled millions from the company to fund their own developments and buy a luxury apartment.

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Winners and losers in 2022’s headline-grabbing defamation cases
Defamation 2023-01-27 10:19 pm By Cindy Cameronne

From the ongoing saga of the high-profile Christian Porter action against the ABC to “backyard” litigation testing the serious harm bar, defamation cases made headlines in 2022, with winners and losers alike shelling out millions to lawyers to protect their reputations.

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ACCC takes aim at social media influencers
Social Media 2023-01-27 1:50 pm By Sam Matthews

The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission has begun a sweep of social media sweep over concerns about “manipulative marketing techniques” employed by influencers.

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