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Embattled Sydney accountant Vanda Gould has lost his defamation case against the Commissioner of Taxation, with a court finding Chris Jordan’s defamatory comments constituted a “robust”, but proportional, counter-attack to Gould’s public disparagement of the Australian Tax Office.
The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission has won an injunction to stop Virtus from completing the purchase of rival Adora Fertility until a court has ruled on the competition regulator's challenge to the acquisition.
The founder of troubled sports streaming start-up Sports Flick has filed a $12.7 million lawsuit against former investors seeking to be reinstated as director and shareholder of the company.
A judge overseeing a class action against the Australian arm of Thai state owned oil giant PTT has rejected attempts to limit the claimed damages from one of Australia's largest oil spills, saying the disaster was "widespread" across Indonesian islands in the Timor Sea.
An ex-Rentokil supply manager has admitted that payments from the pest control company totalling $3.2 million were sent to his bank accounts but has denied this was part of a fraudulent invoicing scheme.
The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission has launched civil penalty proceedings against two Sydney roof tiling businesses and their sole directors, claiming they engaged in bid rigging for construction at the University of Sydney.
Christian Porter and silk Sue Chrysanthou are fighting a $550,000 legal bill of Jo Dyer, a friend of the woman who accused Porter of rape, after she succeeded in having the barrister removed from the former attorney-general’s defamation lawsuit against the ABC.
Agricultural equipment supplier Agrison has been ordered to pay a $220,000 pecuniary penalty after admitting to misleading its customers about the terms of its tractor warranties.
The lawyer at the centre of a $160,000 legal battle with former employer Norton Rose Fulbright has been restrained from acting as his own corporation’s legal representative in a joint venture dispute due to a conflict of interest.
A Canberra-based property developer may be hit with a class action for allegedly engaging in misleading and deceptive practices which caused financial losses to property buyers, including by rescinding or cancelling off-the-plan contracts in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic.