Christopher Tran

Mining giant BHP and its in-house labour hire subsidiary have failed in their Federal Court bid to stay same job, same pay orders by the Fair Work Commission ahead of an appeal.

Eastlink operator ConnectEast has lost its bid for restitutionary interest after a judge found CityLink's operator overcharged tens of millions of dollars in toll roaming fees.

A judge has hit Mayfair Group director James Mawhinney with 15-year injunctions, after finding he took a "cavalier attitude to compliance" in marketing notes tied to Mission Beach properties in Queensland. 

A lawyer representing a production company that alleges Rebel Wilson “deliberately undermined” the distribution of her movie, The Deb, says the director repeated “false and derogatory statements” after the suit was filed. 

A judge that granted carriage of a Google ad tech class action to Maurice Blackburn and Phi Finney McDonald has reiterated concerns that such cooperative arrangements between firms could breach competition law.

A judge has spiked Piper Alderman's class action alleging Google abuses its dominance in digital advertising, favouring a competing case run jointly by two other firms, despite suggesting such arrangements hinted at lawyers “passing the prize around”. 

Women-only social media app Giggle for Girls has told the Full Court its exclusion of a trans woman qualifies as a special measure under the Sex Discrimination Act, as the app was intended to benefit some, if not all, women. 

An appeals court has thrown out X Corp’s legal challenge to a compliance notice issued by the eSafety Commissioner to corporate predecessor Twitter over child exploitation material monitoring on its platform. 

A court has upheld a decision by Insurance and Care NSW to bar builder Introbuild Constructions from obtaining residential building insurance which shut it out of any projects valued over $20,000.

A judge has criticised Mayfair Group’s “directing mind” James Mawhinney in a do-over of ASIC’s case over notes tied to Mission Beach properties, saying “vociferous and continuous efforts” to blame others, including lawyers, for investor losses did not reflect well on him.