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Holden car dealer wins bid for docs on GM’s exit strategy
Automotive 2023-07-06 12:01 pm By Gareth Baker

A former Holden dealer has won the right to see General Motors corporate strategy documents in the five years leading up to Holden’s retirement, in his suit claiming the carmaker’s executives misled him when saying GM was “100% committed” to the line before axing it just a few years later. 

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Docs produced in arbitration can be used in Rinehart family court battle
Energy & Natural Resources 2023-05-26 2:56 pm By Sam Matthews

A judge has allowed two of Gina Rinehart’s children to use documents produced in private arbitration for their defence in court proceedings over ownership of a valuable mining tenement.

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Dentons adds top barrister to dispute resolution team
People In The News 2023-05-24 3:51 pm By Gareth Baker

Dentons has welcomed former barrister and NSW Industrial Relations commissioner Jane Seymour to its dispute resolution team in Sydney.

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High Court challenge could clarify scope of reliance damages
Contracts 2023-05-11 5:30 pm By Sam Matthews

A city council in the Hunter Valley region is set to appeal to the High Court a decision that found it was liable to pay a flight company over $3.6 million in damages for wasted expenditure after it repudiated a contract to lease land at the local airport.

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As trial in family feud nears, Gina Rinehart’s Hancock Prospecting rebuked for contributing to delay
Energy & Natural Resources 2023-04-13 11:06 pm By Cindy Cameronne

A judge has granted a discovery bid by two of Gina Rinehart’s children as a long-running fight over ownership of a valuable mining tenement nears trial, and has rejected her company’s argument that they were solely responsible for dragging out a dispute over documents.

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Hancock Prospecting must hand over docs to Rinehart children
Energy & Natural Resources 2023-03-28 2:25 pm By Cindy Cameronne

Gina Rinehart’s Hancock Prospecting has lost its bid to avoid producing documents to Bianca Rinehart and John Hancock after a judge rejected arguments the Rinehart children were abusing the court’s processes in a long-running dispute over ownership of a valuable mining tenement.

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Barrister who repped Mawhinney can act against him, but not in settlement talks
Restructuring & Insolvency 2023-03-22 8:59 pm By Sam Matthews

A senior barrister who represented Mayfair 101 founder James Mawhinney in mediation of two cases last year has been allowed to appear against him at a hearing in another dispute against a lender and two McGrathNicol receivers, but the silk won’t participate in settlement talks.

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Dentons snags patent ace from intellectual property giant
Intellectual Property 2023-02-13 3:25 pm By Cindy Cameronne

International law firm Dentons has lured the principal of IPH Limited, which owns leading intellectual property firms including Griffith Hack and Spruson & Ferguson, for its Australasian patents team.

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Gina Rinehart’s Hancock Prospecting can’t halt case pending arbitration in 20-year feud
Energy & Natural Resources 2023-01-16 11:24 pm By Sam Matthews

Hancock Prospecting has lost a bid to shut down court cases brought by fellow mining giants Wright Prospecting and DFD Rhodes until the outcome of a family arbitration, after a judge found the company’s own forensic choices made the risk of inconsistent decisions inevitable.

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NAB defeats unconscionable conduct case by vehicle finance brokerage
Financial Services 2022-10-14 9:40 pm By Sam Matthews

A judge has tossed a broker’s lawsuit against NAB and its former subsidiary FAST, finding the bank was entitled to terminate its accreditation over the use of a banned broker’s trail book.

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