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Nine loses appeal of $3.7M defamation award over 60 Minutes floods report
Defamation 2020-10-13 5:16 pm By Miklos Bolza

The Nine Network has lost its challenge to a $3.7 million defamation judgment awarded to a prominent Queensland family over a 60 Minutes report that implied they were to blame for a 2011 flood event that killed 12 people.

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Clive Palmer can’t get law firm, funder docs for possible Queensland Nickel claim
Restructuring & Insolvency 2020-09-23 4:39 pm By Miklos Bolza

The Queensland Supreme Court has shot down an “entirely speculative” bid by two Clive Palmer-owned companies to access information held by two law firms and a litigation funder, as the mining magnate mulls a lawsuit for potential breaches of a settlement reached in the Queensland Nickel liquidation proceedings.

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Resort villa owners to file strike out bid of Clive Palmer lawsuit
Class Actions 2020-08-06 4:01 pm By Miklos Bolza

Villa owners of the ill-fated Palmer Coolum Resort have flagged an impending strike out bid of a lawsuit brought by Clive Palmer, in which the mining magnate seeks to prevent the owners supporting a separate class action against him.

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Judge won’t recuse himself from Vannin Capital fight with Palmer companies
Restructuring & Insolvency 2020-08-06 3:32 pm By Alison Eveleigh

A judge has refused to recuse himself from a stoush between litigation funder Vannin Capital and Clive Palmerā€™s companies over the appointment of a barrister in a claim springing from the long-running Queensland Nickel liquidation case.

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Queensland Nickel liquidators appeal $100M loss in case against Clive Palmer
Appeals 2020-07-08 7:35 pm By Christine Caulfield

The liquidators of Clive Palmer’s Queensland Nickel are appealing a win for the billionaire in their case over the collapse of the refinery in 2016, which centred on $102 million in loans allegedly paid by Queensland Nickel to Palmer’s Mineralogy.

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Court tosses appeal seeking to drag Shine Lawyers into negligence lawsuit
Appeals 2020-06-10 2:32 pm By Miklos Bolza

Shine Lawyers and barrister David Turner have once again dodged a negligence lawsuit over advice given about a $630,000 contractual dispute, with an appeals court upholding an earlier decision dismissing a bid to join the two parties.

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Clive Palmer defeats $100M in claims by Queensland Nickel liquidator
Restructuring & Insolvency 2020-06-03 11:21 pm By Cat Fredenburgh

Clive Palmer has defeated over $100 million in claims brought by the liquidator of Queensland Nickel over the $200 million collapse of the the mining company in 2016, with the Queensland politician threatening a possible lawsuit against the liquidator and the funder that backed the claims, Vannin Capital.

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Court blocks Clive Palmer’s bid to shut down class action funding
Class Actions 2020-02-26 3:04 pm By Miklos Bolza

A company owned by mining magnate Clive Palmer has lost its bid to temporarily block funding for a class action over the troubled Coolum Palmer Resort, with the Federal Court finding that special levies garnered from villa owners to back the proceedings were above board and legal.

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Clive Palmer accused of ‘moral obloquy’ in $37.4M class action by timeshare members
Class Actions 2019-12-03 9:08 pm By Cat Fredenburgh

Clive Palmer and associated companies have been accused of unconscionable conduct and “moral obloquy” in a new $37.4 million class action by timeshare members of the billionaire’s now abandoned Palmer Coolum Resort.

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Judge refuses access to insurance policy in Advanta Seeds class action
Class Actions 2019-10-10 5:06 pm By Amelia Birnie

The plaintiffs in a farming class action brought against Advanta Seeds over allegedly contaminated sorghum have been denied access to the defendantā€™s insurance policy documents, after a judge found ā€œsignificant differencesā€ with a recently successful application in a class action against Radio Rentals.

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