Christine Ernst

Carnival has lost an appeal of a finding in a class action that it was negligent in preventing a COVID-19 outbreak aboard the Ruby Princess cruise ship, but an appeal by the applicant over damages has also failed. 

A secret recording of Nine journalist Nick McKenzie speaking to a witness in the case may have been “doctored” and had to be “treated with caution,” the Full Court said Friday.

A court has rejected Ben Roberts-Smith’s appeal of a decision that found he committed war crimes in Afghanistan, as well as the disgraced soldier’s bid to re-open the case in light of a secret recording of Nine journalist Nick McKenzie. 

A stay of a $37 million 2023 judgment in favour of the company behind an abandoned $185 million development in Gosford NSW against the Australian arm of China's Shanxi Construction Investment Group has been extended.

A witness in the Ben Roberts-Smith case threatened to sue Nine and journalist Nick McKenzie, the Full Court has learned, as the former soldier seeks to reopen his appeal following the release of a secret recording of a conversation between McKenzie and the witness.

Nine journalist Nick McKenzie was pressed during cross-examination on Thursday in Ben Roberts-Smith's bid to re-open his defamation appeal on whether he has used deceptive methods or 'subterfuge' in his reporting.

A court has allowed Ben Roberts-Smith to admit into evidence a secret recording of Nine journalist Nick McKenzie, as the former soldier makes a fresh bid to revive his failed defamation case.

Insurer AAI has taken aim at an architect and builder as it seeks to limit its liability in a class action over alleged combustible cladding installed in two high-rise towers in a Sydney suburb.

Insurer AIA, fresh off losing a bid to be severed from a class action over alleged combustible cladding installed in two high-rise towers in a Sydney suburb, has lobbed cross-claims at the towers' architect and builder. 

AAI has lost its bid to appeal an order joining it to a class action over alleged combustible cladding installed at two high-rise towers in Liverpool, NSW.