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High Court won’t take up Clive Palmer’s challenge to criminal charges
High Court 2024-06-06 11:37 pm By Cat Fredenburgh

The High Court will not hear mining magnate Clive Palmer’s challenge to a court’s finding that lawsuits he brought challenging two criminal cases against him over a takeover bid and alleged payments to his political party were an abuse of process and should be stayed.

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Mawhinney escapes $3.5M bankruptcy action by Mayfair Wealth promoter
Restructuring & Insolvency 2024-06-06 3:01 pm By Cindy Cameronne

Mayfair 101ā€™s James Mawhinney has defeated bankruptcy action by the owner of marketing firm 360 Degree Media, who claimed the founder of the beleaguered wealth management business owed him $3.5 million.Ā 

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‘Industrial scale misuse’: Fortescue sues former exec’s green iron start-up Element Zero
Intellectual Property 2024-06-05 10:09 pm By Cindy Cameronne

Fortescue has brought legal action against start-up Element Zero and three former employees, alleging ā€œindustrial scale misuseā€ of the Western Australian mining company’s confidential information.

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ASIC scores third straight win in greenwashing cases
Greenwashing 2024-06-05 9:55 pm By Sam Matthews

The corporate regulator is on a winning streak in its greenwashing cases, with a judge rejecting Active Super’s attempt to qualify its ā€œunequivocalā€ statements about limiting its investment in companies connected to gambling and coal mining.

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Garuda Airlines immune from creditor’s winding up bid, High Court says
High Court 2024-06-05 11:08 pm By Sam Matthews

The High Court has dismissed an appeal of a decision which found Indonesia’s national airline could avail itself of foreign state immunity to defeat a winding up application.

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eSafety Commissioner to drop court case against X over stabbing footage
X Corp 2024-06-05 1:14 pm By Christine Caulfield

The online safety watchdog has dropped her Federal Court action seeking to force X to put a worldwide block on graphic footage of the April stabbing of a religious leader at Wakeley, following a judge’s decision not to maintain an injunction against the social media platform.

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Crypto provider spared penalty in ASIC case because it took advice from leading law firm
Cryptocurrency 2024-06-04 3:12 pm By Cindy Cameronne

A judge has excused cryptocurrency product provider Block Earner from paying a penalty in a case brought by ASIC, despite finding it provided a financial product without a licence, because it obtained legal advice and genuinely believed it was not breaching the law.

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Judge penalises National Gallery contractor $1.5M in ACCC bid-rigging case
Competition & Consumer Protection 2024-06-04 11:22 pm By Andy Sidler

Industrial technology company Delta Building Automation has been hit with a $1.5 million penalty after it was found liable for attempting to rig a bid for construction work on the National Gallery of Australia, a penalty five times the sum it asked the court to impose.

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Latitude defeats customer’s $1M lawsuit over data breach
Privacy & Cybersecurity 2024-06-04 11:15 pm By Cindy Cameronne

A judge has thrown out a self-represented customerā€™s lawsuit against non-bank lender Latitude Financial after he defaulted on court orders and refused to join tech giants DXC Technology and Crowdstrike to his case over a cyberattack that compromised 14 million customer records.Ā 

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In first, cafe franchisor 85 Degrees hit with $1.44M penalty for franchisee’s underpayments
Employment 2024-06-04 3:35 pm By Cindy Cameronne

A judge has ordered Sydney coffee shop chain 85 Degrees to pay a $1.44 million penalty for underpayments by its franchisees, saying it cannot be seen as acceptable for franchisors to ā€œturn a blind eyeā€ to contraventions by franchisees.Ā 

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