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NSW councils entitled to compo: Fed court

BEN COLLINS  |  TUESDAY, 6 NOV 2012
... duty. Apart from that claim against LGFS, a subsidiary of the NSW Local Government Superannuation Scheme, Federal Court Justice Jayne Jagot said damages should be split evenly between ABN Amro, Standard & Poor's and LGFS. Speaking on the court decision ...

Abbott government to index military pensions

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 25 SEP 2012
... military retirement pensions if elected next year. "An incoming coalition government would finally offer a measure of justice to ex-service personnel by properly indexing defence pensions and would deliver this in our first budget," he said. The announcement ...

ASIC civil case a dead duck: Storm founders

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  THURSDAY, 20 SEP 2012
... their director's duties in addition to disqualification from managing a company and holding a financial services licence. Justice Reeves is yet to decide on the Cassimatis' application for dismissal of the ASIC civil action. Last week Commonwealth Bank ...

Judgment reserved for accused Ponzi head

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  MONDAY, 17 SEP 2012
... funds they in fact comprised one scheme. The trial began on July 4 and finished last Wednesday with no indication of when Justice Ward will announce the decision. ASIC said more than 700 Australians had invested more than US$42m in the funds since 2002. ...

Two down, one to go

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 13 SEP 2012
... concluded that the laws that were challenged, with high probability, do not violate the constitution," declared chief justice Andreas Vosskuhle. Germany could now legally participate in the a,-500 billion ESM permanent rescue fund. However, this would ...

Wilson HTM awarded damages

BEN COLLINS  |  MONDAY, 10 SEP 2012
Wilson HTM has been awarded $174, 416 in damages, after chief justice Patricia Bergin said this morning in the NSW Supreme Court, that commission and revenue statements tendered to rival broker Ord Minnett by Wilson's former Sydney desk boss Joseph ...

APRA probe key in NAB case: Lawyers

BEN COLLINS  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 SEP 2012
... Regulation Authority (APRA), reported AAP. Lawyers representing NAB shareholders in a class action against the bank, asked Justice Tony Pagone to force APRA to hand over documents related to an APRA probe into NAB's exposure to US subprime mortgages. ...

Ruling returns $62 million to MF Global customers

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  THURSDAY, 30 AUG 2012
... collapse of the network in November last year saw more than $300 million held in accounts by 10,000 local traders frozen. Justice Black said the entitlements of clients would be calculated on the value of positions held on the date liquidators were appointed ...

Wilson staff shared information while sign on bonus was discussed

BEN COLLINS  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 AUG 2012
... Court, accusing it of a deliberate plan to take over the company by poaching key staff. In Final submissions to chief justice Patricia Bergin in the court this morning, chief council for Wilson HTM Rod Smith, said that evidence inferred that the employee ...

Offshore tax havens bank $32tr: report

BEN COLLINS  |  MONDAY, 23 JUL 2012
... size of a black hole", and that his findings were conservative. The Price of Offshore Revisited was written for the Tax Justice Network by James Henry, former chief economist at consultants McKinsey & Co. After the report was released, the BBC reported ...