A judge has found a director of defunct IT company Novo breached his duty to prevent the company from trading while insolvent, but has stopped short of ordering damages, or making findings he breached other duties.
Liquidators of defunct investment firm Keystone Asset Management have won expanded freezing orders to cover property up to $158 million in the name of developer Robert Filippini and family members.
Proval Renewables has filed a lawsuit against renewables company May Brothers Holdings, seeking to hold it to an agreement to make commission payments of $4.5 million on a $50 million solar project.
A theme park manufacturer contracted by Dreamworld to undertake $5 million in works has won a challenge to an adjudicator’s decision that found a payment claim was invalid because the company didn’t have a building licence.
The judge overseeing the Robodebt class action, which settled this month for a record $548.5 million, may put the settlement administration role out to tender, saying the sum earmarked for the job was “staggeringly large”.
Another judge has railed against the use of generative AI in court proceedings, after a self-represented litigant filed an application to annul his bankruptcy that was replete with fake citations.
A judge has ordered Facebook owner Meta to file its defence in the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission’s three-year-old case over scam cryptocurrency ads on the social media platform.
Facing allegations that it misused its market power with major retailers, Mastercard is challenging a ruling for the ACCC that lays bare discussions about merchant agreements involving inhouse lawyers.
An activist group has asked the High Court to overturn a decision finding it does not own the copyright for grim footage secretly obtained by trespassing at a Victorian slaughterhouse, arguing the case has consequences for press freedoms.
Martinus Rail has won its fight against grain supply chain Co-operative Bulk Handling over a $23 million payment claim for building a rail siding in WA, with a judge finding that the deadline for responding to the claim began running from a Saturday.