Yesterday
Qube wins bitter court fight to claim $7m from Martinus Rail
The rail builder’s attempts to block the logistics group from getting access to $7 million in funds held as part of a security deposit have been dismissed.
- Jenny Wiggins
This Month
Convicted terrorist released from jail after 20 years
Abdul Nacer Benbrika had been convicted of plotting terrorist attacks in 2005.
- Michael Pelly
Rudy Giuliani ordered to pay $220m for false 2020 election claims
Donald Trump’s former lawyer has been ordered to pay two election workers $US148 million after he promoted false claims they stole the election in Georgia.
- Spencer S. Hsu, Tom Jackman, Rachel Weiner and Olivia Diaz
Prince Harry wins major victory in hacking case against tabloids
A London court has awarded Prince Harry $266,000 after finding that newspaper executives knew about the wrongdoing perpetrated against the prince.
- Michael Holden and Sam Tobin
Jan Cameron guilty of misleading market by hiding Bellamy’s stake
The judgment was delivered more than two years after the hearing which ran for two weeks through October and November 2021.
- Max Mason and Carrie LaFrenz
Sargon’s Kingston bankrupted over $154m China financier debt
Phillip Kingston, founder of superannuation technology venture Sargon Capital, did not appear at a court hearing about money. He says he’s in Ukraine.
- Liam Walsh and Max Mason
ANZ fined $900,000 over disastrous 2015 capital raising
ASIC said the fine for a continuous disclosure failure was “a strong and purposeful warning” to other companies.
- Hannah Wootton
Mercer to pay $11.3m penalty in ASIC’s first greenwashing case
The fine, which is still subject to Federal Court approval, would be the first handed down in a greenwashing court action in the financial services industry in Australia.
- Hannah Wootton
November
Eyes on BBY ex-chairman Glenn Rosewall as execs charged
Rosewall was at the helm of the failed stockbroker between 2004 and its spectacular collapse in 2015.
- Sarah Thompson, Kanika Sood and Emma Rapaport
Court blocks telehealth consultations for euthanasia
Federal Court judge says a Commonwealth law banning the use of the phone or internet to “counsel” suicide prevails over state laws.
- Michael Pelly
Former Leighton executive David Savage appears in Sydney court
David Savage has returned from his French chateau to attend court hearings in Sydney as prosecutors try to prove they have enough evidence to bring a criminal case to trial.
- Jenny Wiggins
Roberts-Smith to pay 95pc of Nine’s costs in defamation mega-trial
Justice Anthony Besanko awarded indemnity costs to Nine because the disgraced soldier knew what he was being accused of was substantially true.
- Max Mason
‘Draconian’ merger plan risks killing good deals: lawyers
Treasury’s proposal to force companies to prove that planned mergers won’t harm competition is “an unwarranted interference in commercial activity”, legal experts warn.
- Hannah Wootton
Optus appeals judgment in battle to keep Deloitte report secret
The telco is appealing a court ruling that could lead to the release of a forensic report into last year’s cyberattack, as a review into the latest outage gets under way.
- Jenny Wiggins
AMP share price jumps after $100m class action settlement
Analysts previously predicted the financial services giant could be on the hook for even more than this amount over the case, which related to its controversial adviser payout policy.
- Hannah Wootton
Rose, indiscretion and money: Why Rinehart and her father fell out
Decades old private correspondence between a mining icon and his daughter, Australia’s richest person Gina Rinehart, sheds new light on their relationship breakdown.
- Tom Rabe
‘I just need a gun’: Secret recording of ex-wife’s plot to kill Setka
The former wife of union heavyweight John Setka asked a private investigator to help her get a gun because she needed to kill her ex-husband, a court has heard.
- Euan Black
ASIC one of the most active enforcers in the world: Longo
The watchdog also put super funds on notice of more scrutiny, flagging member service failures and offences relating to eroding balances as key enforcement priorities for 2024.
- Updated
- Hannah Wootton and Patrick Durkin
Protection for judges, but no tax relief
Federal judges can no longer be sued, but some will have to pay more tax. Plus, a new chief prosecutor for the Commonwealth.
- Michael Pelly
Why an SBF trial wouldn’t happen in ‘lamentably slow’ Australia
Departing Federal Court judge Steven Rares warns corporate laws have become “incomprehensible” and the prosecution of white-collar criminals is too slow.
- Updated
- Michael Pelly
