A bid by the liquidators of collapsed engineering company Hastie Group for Lendlease to pay back funds it withdrew under bank guarantees is āuntenableā and āmisconceivedā, a court has heard in a $68 million case that also targets Multiplex, Grocon and John Holland.
A judge hearing a superannuation class action against NAB unit NULIS Nominees will not determine the correct approach for calculating damages at an initial trial scheduled for later this year.
Facebook has filed an application with the High Court seeking to overturn a judgment that found it can be sued in Australia for alleged privacy violations over the Cambridge Analytica scandal.
The High Court has ruled that the ādirect and far-reaching ramificationsā of a contract between the federal government and Tasmaniaās two major airports justifies an order for declaratory relief sought by local councils about the obligation of the airports’ operators to pay rates.
Administrators for building giant ProBuild have won more time to examine its assets as they try to avoid the “nightmarish prospect” of costly delays to the company’s projects.
The brother of Liberal Senator and former resources minister Matt Canavan can investigate potential claims against Glencore in his long running legal spat over the Rolleston coal mine, after a court greenlit his bid for the appointment of special purpose liquidators.
Grain producer Viterra will be ordered to pay Cargill Australia $168.9 million after a judge found the Glencore-owned companyĀ misrepresented the performance capabilities of malt producer Joe White when it sold the company for $420 million in 2013.
From a lengthy committal hearing challenging the ACCC’s investigatory techniques to repeated attacks on the prosecution’s indictment, an indefatigable team of barristers and lawyers across eight law firms helped bring an end to the four-year long pursuit of criminal cartel charges against three banks and six individuals over a $2.8 billion ANZ share placement.
The CDPP’s decision to drop all criminal cartel charges against two banks and four individuals in a “test case” over a $2.5 billion ANZ share placement shows the ACCC “lacks expertise and objectivity” on the financial markets and should leave them to ASIC to regulate, according to one of the former accused.
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.