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The owner of a Cairns tour company sentenced to 12 months' jail for contempt of court by Federal Circuit Court judge Salvatore Vasta is seeking $2 million in damages in a lawsuit against the judge.
The ACCC has secured a misuse of market power declaration against Tasmanian government-owned TasPorts in the regulator's first action under amended competition laws, but the ports company will not pay a penalty as part of an agreement to resolve the case.
Costly add-on therapies sold by Monash IVF to thousands of women undergoing IVF -- including pre-implantation genetic testing -- are the targets of a new class action investigation.
The former CEO of Australia Post has threatened to bring legal action over her departure if the Morrison government fails to enter mediation in the next two days.
A controversial ban on Australians travelling home from India could face a legal attack for what some say is an unlawful overreaction to the COVID-19 crisis, but the prospects of success for any challenge are not clear, an expert tells Lawyerly.
A $440 million settlement by the State of Queensland and dam operator Sunwater resolving a class action over the 2011 Queensland floods has been approved by a NSW judge.
The judge overseeing the first ever bid for a group costs order in a class action that will give the plaintiff's law firm a percentage cut of the proceeds has urged the firm to rethink characterising its own solicitor as an expert.
An appeals court has split on whether a judge's grilling of an expert witness in a personal injury case was appropriate, with the dissenting judge saying the questioning -- which took up more than two-thirds of the cross examination -- was excesssive, and hostile in parts.
A judge has imposed a $1.9 million penalty against Megasave Couriers after the delivery company was found to have misled franchisees with false promises of guaranteed minimum weekly payments and annual income.
A junior solicitor's meeting notes during an ASIC investigation of ANZ did not belong to her client despite the lawyer billing for her attendance at the meeting, law firm HWL Ebsworth has argued before a skeptical judge.