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A judge has ordered that a competition class action against Queensland power companies Stanwell and CS Energy be made open to all energy consumers in the state, saying it was not a “plain vanilla” commercial class action.
A judge has ruled that a senior Queensland police official waived legal professional privilege during cross examination, allowing the plaintiffs in a mandatory COVID-19 vaccination challenge to see legal advice about the jab direction by the Crown Solicitor.
Actor Craig McLachlan has dropped his defamation suit against the ABC, Fairfax and actress Christie Whelan Browne mid-trial just as the defence was due to start its case.
Eleven women will give evidence of sexually inappropriate behaviour by actor Craig McLachlan in his defamation case against Rocky Horror Show co-star Christie Whelan Browne and publishers ABC and Fairfax, including one actress who worked with him on the set of Neighbours in the late 1980s.
A parade of actors are expected to take the stand and testify against Craig McLachlan at a trial that kicked off Monday in his defamation case against Rocky Horror Show co-star Christie Whelan Browne and publishers ABC and Fairfax.
ASIC has lost a bid to dismiss former G8 Education chair Jennifer Hutson's application seeking declarations that she was unlawfully examined by the regulator over the company's $162 million hostile takeover bid for Affinity Education Group.
Former attorney-general Christian Porter has told the Full Court that silk Sue Chrysanthou had to act for him in his defamation action against the ABC over an article airing historical rape allegations, saying she could not refuse the brief simply because a friend of his rape accuser “wishes him ill”.
The directors of mortgage aggregator Connective Services have been hit with indemnity costs for their "outrageous conduct" in pursuing litigation against a company shareholder, including giving false statements and destroying evidence.
A judge has rejected an application by training provider Captain Cook College to postpone the hearing of its appeal in a case won by the ACCC, saying the company's inability to fund the appeal was “largely a problem of [its] own making.”
Two directors of mortgage aggregator Connective engaged in oppressive conduct towards a minority shareholder and Macquarie Bank was a "knowing participant" when it acquired $5 million worth of shares in the company, the NSW Supreme Court has found.