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Ben Roberts-Smith described killing of Afghan teen as ‘most beautiful thing’, court told
Australia’s most decorated Afghanistan war veteran Ben Roberts-Smith told a former SAS soldier that when he “blew the brains out” of a young Afghan man it was “the most beautiful thing [he’d] ever seen”, a court has heard.
Charges dropped in landmark criminal cartel case over $2.5B ANZ share placement
In a stunning reversal, the Commonwealth Director of Public Prosecution has dropped all criminal cartel charges against two investment banks and four individuals in relation to a $2.5 billion ANZ share placement, four years after the charges were brought following an allegedly questionable investigation by the ACCC.
PE Capital ordered into liquidation after running unregistered investment schemes
A court has ordered the winding up of investment manager PE Capital Funds Management, whose responsible entity Endeavour Securities has connections to collapsed financial services company Linchpin Capital.
Settlement talks advance in bungled lease case against Macpherson Kelley
Macpherson Kelley will head to an eleventh-hour mediation in a negligence case over the execution of a 10-year service station lease agreement with Shell, after the court heard settlement talks were well progressed.
Judge has change of heart, will hold settlement hearing in Romeo’s class actions
A Federal Court judge has reconsidered her plan to dispense with a hearing to weigh a $1.55 million settlement of two class actions that allege supermarket chain Romeo's underpaid hundreds of workers at stores in NSW and South Australia.
SAS sergeant admits he was reporter’s source in Ben Roberts-Smith trial
A SAS sergeant testifying for Fairfax Media in the Ben Roberts-Smith's defamation trial has admitted he told an investigative reporter the decorated veteran machine-gunned a disabled man during the war in Afghanistan, but insisted everything he said was true.
Top judge warns against making a villain of class actions
As parliament weighs the latest Morrison government crackdown on class actions, the Federal Court's chief judge has warned of "an ever present danger" of maligning the regime.
Forum Finance director can’t block receivers from selling waterfront homes
Forum Finance director Vince Tesoriero has lost a battle to stop receivers from selling luxury properties in which he and Bill Papas hold a stake pending the outcome of Westpac's fraud case against him.
Macpherson Kelley faces trial over botched lease that gave Shell extra land
Macpherson Kelley is headed for trial next week in a case that alleges the law firm bungled the execution of a 10-year lease agreement with Shell for a service station in Melbourne, giving the energy giant an extra 320 square metres equating to $2.5 million in lost rent for its landlord client.
IP Australia puts kibosh on extension for Bayer’s contraceptive patent
IP Australia has quashed an extension for a patent covering a Bayer oral contraceptive, saying the extension should have been calculated based on a drug that was included on the Australian Register of Therapeutic Goods at an earlier date.