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Dover Financial, ex-director mull lawsuit against ASIC
ASIC 2022-05-26 9:33 pm By Cindy Cameronne

Defunct financial advisory firm Dover Financial and its former director have taken ASIC to court seeking discovery as they mull a potential lawsuit against the corporate regulator.

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Judge orders penalties of $1.4M in ASIC’s case against Dover Financial
ASIC 2021-03-05 6:17 pm By Cindy Cameronne

A judge has ordered that defunct Dover Financial Advisors and its former director pay $1.4 million in penalties for creating a misleading client protection policy he described as “an exercise in Orwellian doublespeak.”

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Dover ignored lawyers’ warnings about ‘misleading’ client policy, court hears
ASIC 2020-06-01 5:12 pm By Miklos Bolza

Former Dover Financial director Terry McMaster on Monday admitted to personally drafting a so-called client protection policy described by a judge as an “exercise in Orwellian doublespeak”, as the court heard evidence that the defunct financial firm ignored red flags raised by two law firms about the policy.

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ASIC wins case over options trader’s ‘deliberate deception’
ASIC 2020-02-05 4:09 pm By Miklos Bolza

ASIC has chalked up a victory in a long-running case against a Marshall Islands-based binary options trader, with a judge finding the trader engaged in the “deliberate deception of vulnerable people”.

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Geelong sues fundraising firm claiming affiliation with the Cats
Advertising 2019-05-22 9:37 pm By Cat Fredenburgh

The Geelong Football Club has launched Federal Court proceedings against a promotional firm it claims passed itself off as the famous AFL club in order to procure payments from members.

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Appeal filed in Fairlight synthesiser trade mark dispute
Entertainment 2018-11-14 10:25 pm By Miklos Bolza

Keyboard specialist PKT Technologies has returned for an encore in a six-year long trade mark dispute, appealing a $384,000 judgment against it for violating a trade mark licence agreement with engineer Peter Vogel, inventor of the groundbreaking synthesiser behind some of 80s pop music’s most iconic sounds.

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