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A judge has extended asset freezing orders until next year in a $109.5 million case brought by the tax office against Gold Coast property developer James Raptis and his companies.
A judge has thrown out a lawsuit that argued the funding for a class action against two Queensland energy generators didn't comply with new regulations targeting litigation funders, and said a landmark judgment that held class action funding agreements were managed investment schemes was conceptually incoherent and ripe for a Full Court challenge.
A judge has knocked back Colonial First State’s bid to warn around 100,000 group members that even if they opt out of a class action against the wealth management firm they might still be bound by the outcome of the case.
Accounting firm PricewaterhouseCoopers is facing claims of professional negligence by insolvent tertiary education provider Cornerstone for allegedly assisting the company's former director in overstating the company's revenue and unlawfully extinguishing his debt.
A former executive of hospital operator Healthe Care has been sentenced and fined $10,000 after pleading guilty to one charge of insider trading for acquiring a large number of the company's shares while in possession of inside information regarding plans to acquire a rival hospital operator.
A judge has denied former Attorney-General Christian Porter access to material about a crucial meeting involving Jo Dyer, the friend of a woman who accused him of rape, which he sought to bolster his appeal of the removal of silk Sue Chrysanthou from his now-settled defamation case against the ABC.
A Nyamal man mistakenly identified by the Seven Network as the suspect in the abduction of four-year-old Cleo Smith in Western Australia is suing the broadcaster for defamation.
A former JPMorgan managing director has said the three investment banks at the centre of an alleged cartel made individual decisions to trade “gently” in ANZ shares but were conscious of their fellow underwriters' risks following a botched share placement in 2015.
The maker of Somat dishwashing products has hit back at allegations of trade mark infringement, telling a court the prominent brand name on its range of dishwashing tablets functions as an “unmistakable” point of difference between the company and market leader Finish.
Former Liberal power broker Marcus Bastiaan has told a court he will seek an injunction to prevent investigative journalist Nick McKenzie from “door-knocking and harassing” witnesses in a defamation lawsuit over an explosive 60 Minutes report.