Yesterday
Plenary CEO avoids conviction after guilty plea
Two charges related to resisting and assaulting police were withdrawn after David Lamming’s guilty plea was accepted by the local court.
- Max Mason and Zoe Samios
This Month
Ex-NSW Liberal leader’s son gets community service for drug dealing
Mark Chikarovski, 38, will serve a 35-month sentence in the community for supplying a range of drugs via the dark web.
- Max Mason
- Updated
- Legal profession
Meet the eight new judges joining the Federal Court
The president of the Victorian Bar, the head of ANU Law School and leading commercial barristers are among a swathe of new appointments.
- Maxim Shanahan
Nine’s Airlie Walsh sues network amid workplace culture fallout
The well-known television personality had worked on the Today breakfast program and as a political reporter for more than a decade.
- Max Mason and Sam Buckingham-Jones
Supermarket giants use the $5 Oreo to argue their discounts are real
The ACCC has accused Woolworths and Coles of misleading shoppers. The retailers say the regulator doesn’t understand how pricing works.
- Carrie LaFrenz and Tom McIlroy
Perpetual sues former wealth adviser who defected to Morgan Stanley
The wealth and funds management giant wants to stop Daniel Elias from contacting its clients, and says he is restrained from doing so until next year.
- Max Mason
November
Police apply for AVO against wife of Barrenjoey banker
Police have secured an apprehended violence order against Jessica Bowditch after charging her with the assault of high-profile banker Dyson Bowditch.
- Max Mason
Jarden sues ex-client after getting cut from $300m deal
The investment bank worked on the auction of the commercial sauces and condiments maker but was axed just before a deal with private equity giant Quadrant.
- Jemima Whyte
Tabcorp board left CEO with no choice but to quit: Fair Work ruling
The commission’s decision means Adam Rytenskild will now be allowed to bring his unfair dismissal case before it.
- Max Mason
Who is Alan Jones’ lawyer?
Criminal solicitor Bryan Wrench is a regular fixture in the tabloid press, and has a long list of prominent clients.
- Maxim Shanahan
When things went wrong for the cafe baron and the Chinese shoe king
The Federal Court has ordered that Faddy Zouky’s assets be frozen until he pays back nearly $9.6 million after a business deal turned sour.
- Updated
- Max Mason
- Exclusive
- Commercial property finance
ATO cut a deal with developer accused of fraud. But the money vanished
The uncle of Real Housewives of Sydney star Nicole O’Neil struck a deal with the Tax Office to pay millions in bills and penalties. When the ATO went to get the money, it was gone.
- Max Mason
October
White and Rogan abandon legal fight
A settlement believed to be in the millions of dollars has ended the court stoush between the WiseTech boss and the Sydney wellness entrepreneur who was once his alleged lover.
- Max Mason
Richard Pratt’s love child free to sue family for slice of the fortune
Paula Hitchcock, 27, is the child of the late packaging billionaire and will be allowed to continue her legal pursuit for access to the family trust.
- Max Mason
WiseTech founder got married amid legal fight with alleged ex-lover
Richard White and former Sydney criminal lawyer Zena Nasser have tied the knot amid a year-long stoush with the tech billionaire’s former lover.
- Max Mason and Jonathan Shapiro
- Exclusive
- Wisetech Global
Richard White cancels Tech Council appearances amid legal stoush
The WiseTech chief executive is winding back his duties as a leader of Australia’s peak technology industry body.
- Max Mason
Super Retail accused of intimidation, victimisation by former exec
Court documents claim whistleblower Amelia Berczelly was “scared and sickened” as she grappled with an ASX statement she worried may have identified her.
- Carrie LaFrenz
Bill Papas ‘the architect’ of $500m bank fraud, court finds
He masterminded an audacious scam worth $500 million that funded a lavish lifestyle of yachts, sports cars and property before he fled Australia.
- Max Mason
- Exclusive
- Funding
WiseTech board decides White’s alleged affair strictly ‘personal’
The legal stoush between software billionaire Richard White and Sydney wellness entrepreneur Linda Rogan is a “personal” matter according to WiseTech’s board.
- Max Mason, Jemima Whyte and Jonathan Shapiro
Super Retail loses bid to throw out Harmers from dismissal case
Justice Michael Lee said it would be “far from an insignificant thing” to disallow two women suing the company their choice of solicitor.
- Carrie LaFrenz
