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In finding Star Entertainment's former group general counsel liable for breaches of duty, the judge overseeing ASIC's case has questioned the chief lawyer's insistence that she "rarely gave legal advice" and that her roles with the company should be delineated.
ASIC has had mixed success in a case against former Star directors and officers, with a judge finding the casino operator’s former CEO and GC breached their duties but that claims against the former board fell short.
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A court has rejected a bid to apportion costs by Downer after it found ICC arbitration proceedings the company brought against Squadron were invalidly commenced, saying the engineering company had lost on the core issue in dispute.
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The corporate regulator has launched proceedings to wind up a company in the steel empire of billionaire Sanjeev Gupta for its failure to lodge financial reports for four years.
The Federal Court has cautioned self-represented litigants against using generative artificial intelligence to decide whether their case has merit, saying it is "not reliable for legal help”.
A class action against AMP over allegedly inflated insurance premiums has been ordered to better particularise its case, with a judge hearing the current pleading is "not good enough" for the wealth manager to put on a defence.
The law firm and funder behind the settled class action against QSuper will seek almost $31 million in costs and commission at an upcoming hearing.
The consumer watchdog has raised concerns about rising prices and unregulated airport charges amid significant infrastructure investment and record revenue at the nation's busiest airports.
A Sydney lawyer has successfully defended a case alleging he should have advised an X-ray business and its director that their defences in proceedings against medical device maker Philips were hopeless.
A court has heard that a class action on behalf of hundreds of thousands of customers whose flights were cancelled during the COVID-19 pandemic is estimated to be worth over $100 million.