Month: September 2020

Catchwords: EQUITY – EQUITABLE REMEDIES – INJUNCTIONS – MANDATORY INJUNCTIONS – OTHER MATTERS – where the terms of a settlement deed and a consent order made in one proceeding required the applicants to indemnify the fourth respondent in respect of any liability it might have to the first respondent for a claim advanced in another…

Catchwords: CONTRACTS — performance — discharge by performance — payment — sale of real property —prior expenditure on property by purchaser — alleged oral agreement to treat expenditure as deposit — collateral contract — restitution COSTS — party/party — specific court rules in relation to costs — whether proceedings could have been commenced in District…

Catchwords: JUDGMENTS AND ORDERS – orders concerning interim indemnification of previous trustee for costs of delivery of trust documents to new trustee – whether orders final or interlocutory – orders expressly stated to be subject to any further order – exercise of discretion by primary judge in case management and the working out of earlier…

Catchwords: TORTS – fraudulent conspiracy – appellant alleged multiple parties fraudulently conspired to procure him to obtain a short-term loan he was unable to repay – case entirely circumstantial with no direct evidence – matters relied upon fell well short of proving allegations to the relevant Briginshaw standard – findings by primary judge credit-based and…

The Securities and Exchange Commission today charged Yinghang “James” Yang, a senior index manager at a globally recognized index provider, and his friend Yuanbiao Chen, a manager at a sushi restaurant, with perpetrating an insider-trading scheme that… Article source: https://www.sec.gov/news/press-release/2020-217

The Securities and Exchange Commission today announced settled charges against a Colorado man for defrauding investors, including cadets at the U.S. Air Force Academy. The SEC’s complaint alleges that over a two-year period, Milton J. Dosal, Jr. raised… Article source: https://www.sec.gov/news/press-release/2020-216

Article source: https://www.bionews.org.uk/page_152004

The Securities and Exchange Commission today announced an award of $2.4 million to a whistleblower whose timely submission of information prompted the agency to initiate an investigation and bring an enforcement action that stopped ongoing misconduct,… Article source: https://www.sec.gov/news/press-release/2020-215

Article source: https://www.bionews.org.uk/page_151788

Article source: https://www.bionews.org.uk/page_152016