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Former Attorney-General Christian Porter has stepped down from the federal cabinet after refusing to reveal information 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.
Avant Insurance has lost a bid to pause an order that it pay $371,000 in the legal costs of a surgeon facing a class action by breast implant patients of defunct clinic the Cosmetic Institute while the insurer's appeal is pending.
A boutique Sydney law firm has been taken to court by the Fair Work Ombudsman for allegedly failing to pay the minimum wage to a paralegal.
A judge has questioned whether he should allow prosecutors to amend charges against ANZ and its treasurer in a criminal cartel case over a $2.5 billion share placement after the bank argued the charges were defective and should be quashed.
The Star Entertainment Group has filed court proceedings against the Australian Taxation Office seeking to have interest charges on a tax bill cancelled, saying the ATO acted “unfairly” by not adhering to the terms of a 2001 settlement agreement.
Pest control company Rentokil has won an urgent bid to freeze its former supply manager’s assets after he allegedly stole $3.2 million from the company by creating false invoices on his work laptop.
NRL player Jack de Belin has settled his defamation lawsuit against the publisher of The Daily Telegraph over an article, cartoon and tweet that allegedly implied he was a rapist and a “despicable person”.
US singer Katy Perry is seeking to withdraw an admission that licensing her trade mark to Target and Myer constituted use, saying it was plainly “wrong” after the Full Federal Court held an owner who authorised use of a mark was not liable for direct infringement.
A Federal Court judge has taken a swipe at new regulations that require class action funding arrangements to be registered as managed investment schemes, saying it was difficult to reconcile the new rules with the class action regime.
A PwC partner who the ATO claims was assigned to work on a matter for meat processing company JBS to bring a “cloak of legal privilege” kept a supporting role on the brief despite the company CFO’s dissatisfaction, a court has heard.