Senator Michaelia Cash’s former media adviser says he notified his counterpart in the office of former federal Justice Minister Michael Keenan ahead of AFP raids on the Australian Workers’ Union offices, and both alerted the media, a court heard Wednesday.
The law firm running a class action against sandalwood producer Quintis has pitched an unusual common fund order that subjects the firm and the funder bankrolling the case to ongoing monitoring by a cost referee.
Michaelia Cash’s former chief-of-staff, Ben Davies, was the tipster who told the minister’s ex-media adviser that federal police were planning to raid the headquarters of the Australian Workers’ Union, a court was told Tuesday.
A former staffer to federal minister Michaelia Cash admitted in court Monday to alerting the media about federal police raids on the offices of the Australian Workers’ Union, but he refused to reveal who tipped him off.
Biotech company Cryosite has agreed to pay $1.05 million to settle the competition regulator’s landmark case alleging it jumped the gun on a proposed merger agreement with rival Cell Care.
Two Macquarie Private Wealth advisers have won their appeal of an order by the Australian Securities and Investments Commission that banned them for 10 years for falsifying emails and misclassifying client advice.
Clive Palmer is facing the music after riffing off Twisted Sister’s 1980s anthem ‘We’re Not Gonna Take It’ in his election campaign ads, with Universal Music lodging a copyright infringement case against the aspiring MP.
AMP executives are the focus of the Australian Securities and Investments Commission’s investigation of the wealth management firm’s fees for no service scandal, a court heard Friday.
A judge won’t defer the opt-out notice in a shareholder class action against GetSwift pending the High Court’s decision on a special leave application to revive a competing class action, saying the sooner the case settles the better.
Greens senator Sarah Hanson-Young, who is suing fellow senator David Leyonhjelm for defamation, has asked a court for the costs of having her lawyers appear at a hearing for which his side failed, without explanation, to appear.