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Private construction company Hutchinson Builders has resolved a lawsuit it brought against the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission seeking to quash what it called an invalid notice to produce documents to the regulator, which has vowed to bring cases against the construction industry this year.
A judge has consolidated two shareholder class actions brought against chain logistics company Brambles by Slater & Gordon and Maurice Blackburn, despite the rival firms failing to reach an agreement on the terms of the consolidation following a judge's criticism of the class action "beauty parade".
A judge has approved funding terms in a shareholder class action against facility services company Spotless Group under which the funders will get no more than 25 percent of any net settlement or judgment.
Mining giant BHP has been hit with the biggest class action in UK history on behalf of over 235,000 Brazilians claiming more than AUS$7 billion in damages resulting from the disastrous Fundao dam collapse in 2015.
Vodafone and TPG will file a Federal Court challenge to the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission's opposition to their proposed $15 billion merger, teeing up the biggest merger challenge ever heard by the court.
The High Court has sided with Gina Rinehart in relation to a dispute with two of her children over billions of dollars in iron ore mining assets, saying the matter should be heard in arbitration.
Judgment is expected next week in the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission's case against Pacific National alleging the rail company made an anti-competitive bid for Aurizon's Acacia Ridge Terminal and intermodal freight business.
Treasury Wine Estates has won a nearly $352,000 judgment against an Australian company for allegedly violating its trade marks by making and selling copycat Penfolds products in China and Australia.
Daily Telegraph publisher Nationwide News has appealed a $850,000 judgment against it in a defamation case brought by actor Geoffrey Rush, saying the judge who presided over the case was biased.
A former Queensland police officer who reported a fellow officer to a disciplinary tribunal for misconduct after he was seen receiving oral sex from another officer in a police car is not entitled to whistleblower protection because the complaint was not a public interest disclosure, a court has found.