One Nation leader Pauline Hanson has succeeded in overturning a defamation judgment requiring her to pay $250,000 in damages to former colleague Brian Burston, with the Full Federal Court finding an allegation of sexual abuse against Burston was substantially true.
A court has awarded a plastic surgeon $50,000 after finding he was defamed by a patient who left him a one-star review online.
Australian infant formula company Care A2 Plus has hit back at a $200 million lawsuit by US business partner Gensco, arguing the distributor did not properly execute the agreement at the heart of the dispute as allegations of phantom companies fly.
Junior doctors have notched an important victory in a class action alleging Peninsula Health failed to pay overtime hours, with a judge finding the healthcare provider liable to pay for overtime that was not expressly authorised.
A judge has ordered KPMG to turn over its complete audit files for CuDeco in a shareholder class action against the defunct mining company’s former company directors and the accounting firm over allegedly misleading statements about the value of ore reserves at CuDeco’s Rocklands mines in Queensland.
A self-managed superannuation that has taken Slater & Gordon to court over the acquisition of its shares in the firm by Allegro Funds is seeking to join the private equity firm to the proceeding.
Active Super has become the latest target of greenwashing claims by ASIC, with the corporate regulator alleging it misled the market about its responsible investment credentials, including by investing in coal mining, gambling, tobacco and Russian companies.
The state of Victoria is making a bid to suppress its defence in a class action brought over the 2020 hotel quarantine fiasco, as it faces a “substantially altered” indictment in a related criminal proceeding.
A judge has found that penalty privilege cannot be used to avoid the production of books under the Corporation Act.
Troubled professional services firm PwC has lost two partners to law firms Corrs Chambers Westgarth and DLA Piper.