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Mawhinney slammed for taking lawyers’ reputation ‘hostage’ in ASIC appeal
Aaron Weinstock 2022-08-26 11:50 pm By Sam Matthews

The former legal representatives of James Mawhinney have hit back at allegations of incompetence by the embattled Mayfair 101 founder on the last day of his appeal against decisions that saw him banned from soliciting funds or promoting any financial product for 20 years.

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Biggin & Scott shouldn’t be liable for ‘indifference’ to source code infringement, High Court told
Hamish Bevan 2022-08-22 2:47 pm By Cat Fredenburgh

Biggen & Scott should not be held liable for copyright infringement for its supposed “indifference” to the copying of real estate marketing platform Campaigntrack’s source code by a developer, the real estate agency group argues in a special leave application to the High Court.

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Biggin & Scott infringed copyright by copying source code, Full Court finds
Appeals 2022-07-07 4:52 pm By Christine Caulfield

Real estate marketing platform Campaigntrack has won an appeal of a ruling in an important copyright case over its cloud-based software that accused real estate agency group Biggin & Scott of authorising reproduction of the software’s source code.

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Viagogo loses appeal of $7M penalty for duping consumers
ACCC 2022-05-18 2:03 pm By Sam Matthews

Viagogo has lost a bid to overturn a $7 million penalty handed down after a judge found the ticket reseller misled customers on an “industrial scale”.

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‘That’s not what investors signed up for’: Linchpin used funds for unauthorised loans, court told
ASIC 2022-03-08 9:40 pm By Sam Matthews

Clients of Linchpin Capital Group and subsidiary Endeavour Securities who were promised investments in a diversified loan portfolio were instead duped into funding Linchpin’s own business interests and lining its directors’ pockets, a judge has heard as trial got underway in ASIC’s case against three former Linchpin directors.

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PE Capital ordered into liquidation after running unregistered investment schemes
ASIC 2022-02-10 11:21 pm By Christine Caulfield

A court has ordered the winding up of investment manager PE Capital Funds Management, whose responsible entity Endeavour Securities has connections to collapsed financial services company Linchpin Capital.

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Nimble Money beats back shareholder bid to peek at books
Baker McKenzie 2021-12-21 5:43 pm By Bianca Hrovat

Payday lender Nimble has succeeded in blocking its largest shareholder from accessing company documents relating to an impending debt refinance, with a judge finding the company’s financial woes were due to COVID-19 and not improper conduct by management.

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Court orders CBA to hand over oil and gas project books in climate change case
Alice Zheng 2021-11-11 5:23 pm By Miklos Bolza

The Commonwealth Bank of Australia will have to hand over a preliminary tranche of documents relating to seven large-scale oil and gas projects it is financing in a lawsuit that will test whether the bank has complied with its stated commitments on climate change.

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Ex-Rentokil employee denies fraudulent scheme led to $3.2M payment
Clayton Utz 2021-10-25 1:58 pm By Miklos Bolza

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.

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a2 Milk settles trade mark spat with Open Country
Clayton Utz 2021-09-28 2:16 pm By Christine Caulfield

The a2 Milk Company has reached a settlement in its fight against New Zealand-based Open Country’s trade mark containing the jealously guarded ‘a2’, with the rival dairy supplier dropping its successful application to register the mark.

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