Australia’s most-decorated soldier, Ben Roberts-Smith, has lost his bid for special leave from the High Court to appeal a judge’s findings that he committed war crimes in Afghanistan.
The Full Federal Court has tossed Latitude Finance and Harvey Norman’s appeal of a ruling that found the retailer’s ads touting ‘interest free’ payment methods were misleading.
TaxiApps, the operator of the GoCatch rideshare app, has failed to prove that Uber engaged in an unlawful conspiracy, despite a judge finding the rideshare giant intended to harm the defunct taxi app and “surreptitiously” obtained a confidential driver list.
A lawyer acting for two senior Super Retail Group employees presented a PowerPoint to solicitors for the company on the damage to its share price if his clients’ allegations went public, court filings say.
S&P has reached a settlement in a case by two Cayman Island companies over alleged defective ratings but a class action won’t settle until “hell freezes over,” a court has heard.
A NSW Supreme Court judge has found the Barristers Benevolent Association of NSW can use its funds to support mental health care for legal practitioners.
With three months until trial, a judge has knocked back a former ANZ trader’s bid to appeal a decision which barred him from amending his case for what would have been the thirteenth time.
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.
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.
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.