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The building where the shooting allegedly took place is home to multiple law firms, including the Consulate General of Greece and O’Brien Criminal and Civil Solicitors - Office workers' heroic act after man shot in Sydney CBD
Crypto king’s passport seized amid criminal case over $50m collapse [The Australian paywall]
The Chinese director of Blockchain Global has been banned from leaving Australia while a criminal investigation looks into the $50m collapse of the firm.
A copy of the judgment of Button J can be found here - Australian Securities and Investments Commission v Guo [2024] FCA 125
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[65] “Some of the legal practitioners who undertook work for Mr Sharif were not on the Register of Practitioners kept by the High Court of Australia at the time of undertaking the work. It is submitted by the Vitruvian Defendants that, in consequence, costs for work done by those legal practitioners can only be claimed at the rate applicable for work done by graduates or clerks. They rely upon the reasoning of O'Callaghan J in Jadwan Pty Ltd v Rae & Partners (A Firm) (No 7) [2022] FCA 1174 at [27]-[37] where his Honour concluded that: 'The fees "which are" the subject of a taxation certificate from a taxing officer must be payable to a practitioner whose name appears on the Register of Practitioners kept by the High Court of Australia pursuant to s 55C of the Judiciary Act'.”
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