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Max Twigg can’t escape ruling he made off with family fortune
Appeals 2022-05-04 9:13 pm By Sam Matthews

Max Twigg, race car driver and former owner of the famous Byron Bay Hotel, has lost an appeal of a judge’s finding that he misappropriated around $100 million in family trust money and took steps to conceal the transfer of funds from his mother.

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Qantas, TWU lose appeals over axing of 1,800 ground staff
Employment 2022-05-04 11:34 am By Cindy Cameronne

Qantas and the Transport Workers Union both lost their appeals Wednesday of a judge’s decision finding the airline had decided to axe 1,800 ground staff partly to prevent employees bringing industrial action but refusing to reinstate the workers. The airline has vowed to take the case to the High Court.

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ASIC’s contempt case against Mayfair’s Mawhinney paused pending ban challenge
Financial Services 2022-05-04 10:44 am By Christine Caulfield

A judge has ordered a temporary stay of ASIC’s case accusing Mayfair 101 director James Mawhinney of contempt for breaching a 20-year ban.

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Fairfax sued by synagogue head over ‘gossipy, mocking, sensational’ Age report
Defamation 2022-05-04 5:39 pm By Cindy Cameronne

Former synagogue president and Victorian Liberal party treasurer David Mond is suing Nine-owned Fairfax, The Age and two journalists for defamation over three articles accusing him of deciding to host a speech by a convicted spy.

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Investment fraudster Roger Munro sentenced to four and a half years jail
Financial Services 2022-05-04 10:28 pm By Christine Caulfield

Gold Coast fraudster Dr Roger Munro has been sentenced to four and a half years in prison after pleading guilty to three counts of duping investors into parting with hundreds of thousands of dollars.

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ASIC can’t duck case by G8 Education’s ex-chair over alleged unlawful examination
White Collar 2022-05-03 5:49 pm By Sam Matthews

ASIC has lost a bid to dismiss former G8 Education chair Jennifer Hutson’s application seeking declarations that she was unlawfully examined by the regulator over the company’s $162 million hostile takeover bid for Affinity Education Group.

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Peter Dutton says ‘mental gymnastics’ needed for activist’s reading of ‘rape apologist’ tweet
Defamation 2022-05-03 3:59 pm By Cindy Cameronne

Counsel for Peter Dutton has told a court a reader needed to do “mental gymnastics” to understand activist Shane Bazzi’s “rape apologist” tweet as saying the minister doubted rape allegations rather than “excused” the act of rape.

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Melissa Caddick’s husband to vacate Dover Heights mansion as receivers push for sale
White Collar 2022-05-03 3:41 pm By Sam Matthews

The husband of Sydney fraudster Melissa Caddick will be vacating the couple’s harbour-view mansion as court-ordered receivers prepare to put it up for sale. 

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Philips defends class action, says sleep devices weren’t defective when sold
Product Liability 2022-05-03 10:30 pm By Cat Fredenburgh

Philips Electronics has hit back at a class action over recalled sleep apnea machines that contained a foam component that could allegedly degrade and cause consumers to inhale dangerous chemicals, saying the devices were not defective when they were sold.

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Lawyers will try to serve missing Big Un founder on LinkedIn
ASIC 2022-05-03 5:16 pm By Sam Matthews

A judge has given the liquidators of Big Un the go-ahead to serve the director of the collapsed video company through his LinkedIn account after several unsuccessful attempts to contact him about proceedings accusing him and others of violating their directors’ duties.

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