Administrators appointed to the Australian arm of supply-chain finance firm Greensill Capital are recommending that creditors, which are owed in excess of $1.75 billion, vote to wind up the company.
Telstra has failed in its appeal to the High Court to hear its battle with Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane over the planned upgrade of its payphone network across Australia.
News publishers facing a defamation suit by Ben Roberts-Smith have called on the war veteran to explain alleged “deliberate concealment” of documents relevant to the case, as the Australian Federal Police reveals they are investigating claims he buried evidence.
Pasta distributor Conga Foods is challenging a ruling that dashed its bid to register its ‘La Famiglia Rana’ trade mark in Australia.
The judge overseeing sports presenter Erin Molan’s defamation case against the Daily Mail won’t force Molan to be questioned ahead of trail about a segment on Nine’s The Footy Show in which she laughed at an off-colour joke, saying the publisher was “fishing”.
Accounting firm Findex Australia has lost a bid for the High Court to hear its case over a restraint provision against a former financial advisor found to have been unenforcable.
Buffet dining pioneer Sizzler, which closed its last Australian restaurants in November, has settled a trade mark dispute with Brisbane-based chain Burger Urge over a chicken burger known as “the Sizzle”.
Maurice Blackburn has brought a second class action against two NAB units over $6.3 billion in super funds, after the law firm’s first attempt was shut down by a state court as invalid.
The corporate cop has launched action against banking giant Westpac for allegedly selling worthless add-on credit card insurance to unwitting customers, the first of what could be a series of cases against banks in the wake of a remediation program that has returned $250 million to hundreds of thousands of account holders with 11 major lenders.
Star Entertainment can continue its case against a wealthy junket gambler who dishonoured a cheque after losing $43 million in one week at the Baccarat table at Star’s Gold Coast casino.