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A former University of Sydney lecturer has appealed a ruling dismissing the lawsuit he brought against the university after he was fired for a seminar slide that imposed the Nazi swastika on the Israeli flag and which was later posed on social media.
Three unions representing Qantas workers have asked the High Court for special leave to appeal a ruling from the Full Federal Court siding with the airline in a dispute over the operation of the JobKeeper wage subsidy.
Payments provider Tyro is facing the threat of a class action over a days-long EFTPOS terminal outage that has left many businesses unable to accept payments.
Facebook and its subsidiary Instagram have lost a bid to shut down a lawsuit brought by an Australian social media startup, with a judge finding the digital giants relinquished their right to move the dispute to California.
A group representing plaintiff law firm has lampooned recommendations from the government's latest inquiry into class actions, including that the country's continuous disclosure laws be permanently relaxed, saying they give corporations the green light to fleece consumers and mislead investors.
Two law firms that have filed competing class action against AMP over allegedly excessive insurance premiums have changed tack and agreed to consolidate the proceedings.
The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission has rejected a behavioural undertaking from Google intended to assuage the regulator's competition concerns about its planned $3 billion acquisition of fitness device company Fitbit, saying it would be challenging to monitor and enforce.
Shareholders of collapsed vocational training company Vocation are poised to get about half of a $50 million settlement reached last month in a complex, long-running class action alleging the company failed to make adequate disclosures about its contracts with the Victorian Department of Education.
Fairfax Media has issued an apology and settled a lawsuit by former Toll Group chairman Ray Horsburgh over an Australian Financial Review article that allegedly defamed him by claiming he made a racist remark at a board meeting.
Rival bookmakers Sportsbet and Sportsbetting.com.au have reached a settlement in their trade mark and consumer law dispute, agreeing to drop their claims against each other for unspecified terms.