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The Transport Worker's Union of Australia is challenging a $270,000 fine in a case brought by the union monitor alleging it kept almost 21,000 lapsed members on its register and failed to keep copies of records.
Australia's biggest media companies want to lend their weight to an appeal by Bauer Media of a historic $4.5 million award handed to actor Rebel Wilson last year in a defamation case.
Australian company Vittoria Food & Beverage has won its challenge to a patent application for a coffee pod system filed by a unit of global food giant Mondelez International.
The High Court of Australia will tackle the question of whether injured plaintiffs in tort cases are entitled to damages for the future loss of superannuation and the age pension.
It might be in the glare of a government inquiry, but business is booming for Australian litigation backer IMF Bentham, which values its current caseload at $4.7 billion.
The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has banned a financial adviser for five years for failing to act in his clients' best interests, the second action taken by the corporate regulator through a project that uses data to target bad life insurance advisers.
Westpac was responsible for the conduct of its in-house financial planner, who allegedly overcharged the bank's own customers with excess premiums on life insurance, class action lawyers have told a court.
A former financial adviser for Charter Financial Planning has been permanently barred from providing financial advice by Australia's corporate regulator after it found he deducted almost $67,000 in fees for advice he never gave.
A judge overseeing a class action brought by investors in a sports betting scheme has shot down a lawyer's mid-trial bid that he recuse himself.
IP Australia has denied Google's application for approval of a patent covering advertising price discounting, saying it was not a manner of manufacture and therefore not patentable.