Today
Dominique Grubisa and DG Institute engaged in misleading conduct
The self-styled wealth and property guru runs seminars for students on how to protect their assets, but has been pursued by the consumer watchdog.
- Max Mason
This Month
Police investigated sexual assault allegation against PwC employee
A woman is suing PwC Australia under workplace laws. Both parties agreed on Friday to attend mediation.
- Max Mason
Oil Search director’s comments allegedly cost exec new job
Former Oil Search executive Ayten Saridas allegedly lost a job she had begun working in after disparaging remarks from a board member contacted as a reference.
- Max Mason
Oil Search investigation found executives ‘felt belittled’ by MD
Part of the report was read out in court, with former chief financial officer-designate Ayten Saridas suing the company for alleged bullying and harassment.
- Max Mason
March
- Exclusive
- Tax avoidance
Client alleges ex-EY partner took secret payments on tax scheme
A wealthy client is suing the EY Australia partnership alleging a partner earned $700,000 in secret commissions as part of a failed tax loss scheme.
- Max Mason
- Exclusive
- Cryptocurrencies
ATO papers allege claimed Bitcoin ‘creator’ doctored documents
Self-claimed bitcoin inventor Craig Wright allegedly made than $3 million in false R&D tax claims for his technology companies before leaving Australia in 2015.
- Max Mason and Andrew Burke
ASIC loses crypto case against Finder
Finder and co-founder Fred Schebesta say it won’t reinstate the Finder Earn cryptocurrency offering despite the corporate regulator losing its court claim that it was a financial product.
- Max Mason and Jessica Sier
February
Court permanently blocks use of HWL Ebsworth hack data
The law firm succeeded in making permanent a court order that prevents the use of stolen data, as the size of the hack means lost documents have not been itemised.
- Maxim Shanahan
Ex-EY tax partner’s new evidence thrown out as ‘an abuse of process’
The former partner’s last-minute attempt to get new evidence admitted to stop him being named has been thrown out.
- Max Mason and Neil Chenoweth
January
Solicitor pinged over offensive emails to Mills Oakley partner
Sydney solicitor George Sideris has been found guilty of professional misconduct after describing a partner at the firm as a “pathetic human”.
- Maxim Shanahan
December 2023
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
Nuix share slump should have sparked concern about forecasts: ASIC
In its closing arguments in the long-running dispute, the regulator says directors must have known that the market did not believe they would hit targets.
- Max Mason
TechOne director claims understaffing forced him to work 70-hour weeks
The company brought forward sales targets in the previous financial year but did not have enough staff, according to new allegations made in the Federal Court.
- Max Mason
‘Cannot go uncorrected’: Supreme Court’s unusual rebuke of minister
The NSW Supreme Court has made an extraordinary intervention to defend itself against criticism from a state government minister.
- David Marin-Guzman
November 2023
Pepsi loses ATO challenge on tax for Schweppes payments
The Tax Office has won a challenge by PepsiCo over assessments that it owed royalty taxes for deals it orchestrated between Singapore and Australian subsidiaries for beverage concentrate and branding rights.
- Max Mason
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
Chemist Warehouse sweats on courtroom pharmacy brawl
The discount pharmacy chain is sure to be watching a little-publicised dispute with a Blooms The Chemist franchisee and the Pharmacy Council of NSW.
- Updated
- Max Mason
EY admits staffer drafted papers for alleged tax exploitation partner
EY Australia has admitted a staff member helped draft documents for a former partner who allegedly promoted tax exploitation schemes, but the firm says the person was acting on instructions and has not been disciplined.
- Max Mason and Neil Chenoweth
Sydney jeweller hit with record sexual harassment damages
A Sydney jewellery shop and its owner have been ordered to pay more than $268,000 in damages after being found to have sexually harassed an employee.
- Max Mason
Senators slam EY deal with ATO as too lenient
EY is facing further scrutiny in the wake of allegations a former partner promoted tax exploitation schemes over five years.
- Max Mason and Neil Chenoweth
