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No jury for Gatto defamation trial after lawyer bungle – 19 July 2020
Mr Gatto launched legal action in April last year over claims an ABC story had falsely accused him of threatening to kill gangland lawyer Nicola Gobbo. However, the Supreme Court of Victoria has ruled that a defamation trial due to start next week between Mr Gatto and the Australian Broadcasting Corporation will not be heard before a jury, but by a judge alone, after his lawyers bungled the paperwork.
ASIC’s two-year wait before Regal raid – 18 July 2020
The corporate regulator spent almost two years plotting its investigation into Regal Funds Management before it called in the Australian Federal Police to raid the high-profile hedge fund’s office in Sydney.
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Jail for former registrar who hacked court system, issued fake order – 17 July 2020
A woman who exploited her job as a court registrar to hack into a computer system and issue a false intervention order against a friend’s ex-partner, has been jailed for at least 13 months.
Clive Palmer charged with fraud and corporate misconduct offences – 17 July 2020
ASIC has charged businessman and former federal MP Clive Palmer with fraud, relating to two payments worth more than $12m. The fraud and corporate misconduct offences carry lengthy prison sentences and were over the alleged diversion of at least $10m to the benefit of his Palmer United party, in the weeks before the 2013 election.
