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Saying the interests of class action members "must be given primacy", a judge has rejected the first bid for a group costs order in a class action since contingency fee legislation passed in Victoria.
The sister of NBA star Ben Simmons has been ordered to pay $550,000 in damages to half-brother Sean Tribe for a series of Tweets alleging Tribe sexually molested her as a child.
The federal Labor party has called on Christian Porter to reveal what he knows about an anonymous donor that covered a portion of his costs in pursuing defamation proceedings against the ABC over an article airing historical rape allegations.
Approximately 1,000 investors of collapsed stockbroker Halifax Investment Services have challenged a court decision concerning the date of the realisation of their investments which decreased the amounts they could recoup from the company's liquidation.
Freight forwarding company Mondiale has filed a lawsuit against Wisetech Global alleging the logistics software firm breached competition law by misusing its substantial market power.
A law firm may have exerted unfair or illegitimate pressure on a sacked solicitor when it told her to accept an offer to settle her adverse action case or risk referral to the legal watchdog, a judge has found.
Property developer PPK Group is challenging the dismissal of its long-running negligence case against law firm HWL Ebsworth over the $25.5 million sale of Crown-owned Sydney land.
A judge will allow workers in a sham contracting class action against technical services contractor BSA to rejoin the case after opting out, saying the company's communications during the opt out period were capable of misleading "at least a significant proportion" of group members.
The ACCC has given the OK to the proposed merger of BPAY, eftpos and the New Payments Platform, saying competition between the three payment system companies was marginal and that "strong competitors" would remain after the union.
Water supplier and dam operator Seqwater has won its high-stakes challenge to a ruling finding it liable for the 2011 Queensland floods and sticking it with half the damages owed to thousands of class action members.