Max Twigg, race car driver and former owner of the famous Byron Bay Hotel, has lost an appeal of a judgeâs finding that he misappropriated around $100 million in family trust money and took steps to conceal the transfer of funds from his mother.
Qantas and the Transport Workers Union both lost their appeals Wednesday of a judgeâs 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Counsel for Peter Dutton has told a court a reader needed to do âmental gymnasticsâ to understand activist Shane Bazziâs ârape apologistâ tweet as saying the minister doubted rape allegations rather than âexcusedâ the act of rape.
The husband of Sydney fraudster Melissa Caddick will be vacating the coupleâs harbour-view mansion as court-ordered receivers prepare to put it up for sale.Â
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.
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.