The High Court has rebuffed the CFMEU’s constitutional challenge to legislation used to facilitate its takeover by the federal government, rejecting an argument that the laws were enacted with the illegitimate aim of suppressing the union’s political activities.
Disgraced soldier Ben Roberts-Smith is digging in with his attack on a judge’s findings that he committed war crimes in Afghanistan, asking the High Court to find in his favour in a defamation case against Nine.
The High Court has rebuffed the CFMEU’s constitutional challenge to legislation used to facilitate its takeover by the federal government, rejecting an argument that the laws amounted to an unjust acquisition of the union’s property.
Two months after reserving judgment, an appeals court has allowed the Worley class action to reopen the case to offer its take on the relevance of the Full Court’s ruling last month in the CBA class actions.
In tossing his challenge to a finding that he committed war crimes in Afghanistan, an appeals court rejected Ben Roberts-Smith’s criticisms of the trial judge, finding the judge gave sufficient weight to the presumption of innocence.
Air Canada did not waive a defence allowing it to cap damages at $240,000 in a claim by several passengers over alleged spinal and psychological injuries caused by turbulence on a 2019 flight, the High Court has ruled.
Mayfield Development’s competition case against NSW Ports over agreements to privatise two ports has made it to the High Court, with the developer pressing its argument that derivative Crown immunity did not apply to the port authority.
Paint maker AkzoNobel must produce a document history log that includes embedded comments from its lawyers at Clayton Utz, in a dispute over alleged defective coating used on the $45 billion Ichthys natural gas project.
An appeals court has dismissed a competition case by Mayfield Development against NSW Ports over agreements to privatise two ports, finding that derivative Crown immunity applied to the port authority.
A Federal Court judge might be called as a witness in accused war criminal Ben Roberts-Smith’s bid for a retrial in his failed defamation case against Nine.