Restaurant chain Hog’s Breath CafĂ© is facing a class action for allegedly misappropriating franchisee funds meant for advertising, including by paying a director’s girlfriend as a “consultant”.
The children of one of Australia’s wealthiest families are locked in a legal battle, with a judge preliminarily allowing the daughter to bring derivative proceedings against her brother for allegedly giving property developer Lendlease options to buy land owned by the trust for which she is a beneficiary for a âsignificant undervalueâ.
A liquidator who âprovoked litigationâ must personally pay the costs of the proceedings brought by a creditor of defunct company Azmac because of his âunreasonableâ handling of the company’s liquidation, a court has found. Â