Jacqueline Gleeson, daughter of Australia s former chief justice, sworn in as 55th High Court judge
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Justice Jacqueline Gleeson with her father, former chief justice Murray Gleeson, at her swearing-in ceremony this morning.
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She knits, once included an emoji in a legal judgement, and was in the mosh pit during Nirvana s only Australian tour.
Justice Jacqueline Gleeson is not your usual High Court appointee.
Key points:
Justice Gleeson has served on the Federal Court for the past seven years
She is the daughter of former chief justice Murray Gleeson
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In brief - Queensland Supreme Court finds that, in the
circumstances, an excess policy was a marine policy subject to the
Marine Insurance Act
Insurance Contracts Act 1984 (Cth) does not apply to
contracts to which the
This was a critical issue considered by Justice Bond in the
Supreme Court of Queensland late in 2020 in the case of
The issue considered in this case is one which insurers are
often required to consider but which rarely reaches the courts for
consideration.
Court considers whether the excess policy was a marine policy
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ATO settles case against Israel Discount Bank
The Australian Taxation Office (ATO) and its co-plaintiffs have settled their proceedings in the Federal Court of Australia (No’s NSD1600 of 2015 and NSD711 of 2020) with the last remaining defendant, Israel Discount Bank Limited (IDB).
In the proceedings the plaintiffs – the ATO, corporations associated with the Binetter family (including Andrew John Binetter and Michael Thomas Robert Binetter and others) and the liquidators of those corporations – alleged (which the bank denied) that:
the directors of each company breached their duties as directors, causing the plaintiff companies loss and damage; and
IDB assisted the directors’ breach of their duties to the plaintiff companies.
Worley CFO steps down
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Worley will kick off 2021 by hunting for a new chief financial officer after Tom Honan said he would he retire from the global engineering group after five years in the top finance role.
The company said on Monday that Mr Honan would stay on until June 2021 while it ran a global search for someone to replace him. Mr Honan, whose former finance jobs include a stint at toll road group Transurban, joined Worley in late 2015 to strengthen its management team as it was struggling with a series of profit warnings and class action lawsuits alleging continuous disclosure breaches.