A New South Wales developer’s argument that the Full Court was “plainly wrong” to dismiss the ACCC’s competition case against NSW Ports over the privatisation of two ports is destined for the High Court, a judge has heard.
A group of surgeons who worked for The Cosmetic Institute are appealing a judge’s rejection of their bid to declass a representative proceeding on behalf of 13,500 patients who claim they suffered injury or complications from breast augmentation surgery.
Engineering firms G&S Engineering and DRA Global have lost their bid to shield legal advice by McCullough Robertson on whether they were liable to MACH Energy for indirect losses while building a coal processing plant at Mount Pleasant in South Australia.
A group of former Jewish and Israeli students at Brighton Secondary College have won hundreds of thousands of dollars in compensation and an apology from the Victorian government after a judge found the school principal failed to address racially-charged bullying and hundreds of cases of swastika graffiti.
A traditional custodian has filed an application to block seismic testing on Woodside Energy’s Scarborough gas project until her legal challenge has been finally determined, in a case similar to the one that put Santos’ $4.7 billion Barossa project on ice.
A judge has dismissed a Sydney lawyer’s defamation case over an AI-generated story that accused her of trying to defraud $16,000 from David Jones, saying she had admitted to deceitful acts and had not suffered serious harm.
Buy now, pay later company Zip Co offered $4 million to settle a lawsuit by mortgage provider Firstmac alleging infringement of its ‘Zip’ trade mark which it ultimately defeated.
A judge has thrown out defamation lawsuits by the partner of a man accused of being a Central Coast gang member in coverage by Nine and the Daily Telegraph, finding the stories never identified her.
CBA should pay a penalty of $12.8 million — close to the maximum penalty the court can impose on the bank — for underpaying its staff to the tune of $16.4 million, a judge has heard.
NAB can shield a report commissioned by its lawyers at Herbert Smith Freehills into the bank’s workplace culture from a former head of repo trading who alleges she was bullied and paid less than other workers because of her gender. Federal Court Justice Wendy Abraham ruled on Friday that a report by Wise Workplace Solutions…