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Findex’s High Court challenge in case against former financial advisor falls flat
Accounting 2021-04-08 4:02 pm By Christine Caulfield

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.

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Findex can’t enforce ‘convoluted’ restraint clauses against advisor who poached clients, court says
Accounting 2020-10-30 10:23 pm By Miklos Bolza

Accounting firm Findex has lost an appeal of a court’s judgment tossing its case against a former financial advisor, despite the court finding he had poached the company’s clients and caused $742,000 in losses.

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Hiding name of buyer in Antares oil deal a breach of disclosure obligations, court says
Alexander Mossop 2020-10-12 8:59 pm By Cat Fredenburgh

In a win for ASIC, a judge has found that former oil and gas company Antares Energy violated its continuous disclosure obligations by failing to reveal the name of the buyer behind an ill-fated US$254 million acquisition of Texan oil assets.

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ASIC wins appeal of ruling overturning life ban against financial adviser
ASIC 2020-07-14 7:00 pm By Christine Caulfield

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has won its challenge to a tribunal ruling that overturned a permanant ban imposed on a RI Advice Group authorised financial planner who double charged his clients.

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Farooq Khan, other directors breached their duties in battle over Keybridge Capital, court says
Andrew Broadfoot 2019-10-14 4:29 pm By Amelia Birnie

Perth-based Farooq Khan has lost a key case in the battle for control over investment firm Keybridge Capital, after a judge invalidated a board decision to suspend activist investor Nicholas Bolton as CEO and terminate chair John Patton on the basis of Khan’s breach of his directors’ duties.

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Farooq Khan’s Bentley Capital sues Keybridge in latest bid to oust Nicholas Bolton as CEO
Corporate 2019-09-25 10:14 pm By Christine Caulfield

Perth-based Farooq Khan has taken his bitter dispute with activist investor Nicholas Bolton to court, suing Keybridge Capital and two of its four directors ahead of a general shareholder meeting next month.

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Ashley & Martin’s hair loss treatment contracts unfair, judge finds
Competition & Consumer Protection 2019-09-04 11:43 pm By Cat Fredenburgh

Ashley & Martin signed up 25,000 customers to its hair loss program on contracts that put them on the hook for paying for treatment they didn’t receive, a judge has found.

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Docs seized in AFP raid of convicted land mogul’s offices can be handed to liquidators
Allens 2019-08-07 8:25 pm By Miklos Bolza

The Full Federal Court has dismissed two appeals by convicted land mogul Allen Caratti seeking to prevent liquidators of five of his companies from obtaining documents seized in two 2015 raids by the Australian Federal Police.

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Another dispute over Ichthys LNG project may be brewing
Clayton Utz 2019-07-04 11:53 am By Miklos Bolza

The contractor behind the Ichthys LNG project has won court approval to use documents discovered in its lawsuit against Dutch paint manufacturer AkzoNobel for use in any potential dispute with INPEX, the head company behind the liquid natural gas project.

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Judge sends suit in Mineralogy Sino Iron litigation ‘shemozzle’ to WA
Alexander Law 2019-05-20 8:44 pm By Miklos Bolza

A Federal Court judge has transferred a case brought against Clive Palmer and his firm Mineralogy to the Western Australian Supreme Court, where a number of suits are pending in what has been described as “litigious warfare” over the $5.8 billion Sino Iron Ore project.

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