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Former SAS soldier Ben Roberts-Smith is fighting to shield medical records Fairfax says should be made public to “safeguard open justice”, as trial in his defamation case against the publisher faces further delay due to COVID-19 border restrictions.
A judge overstepped in throwing out a class action against two National Australia Bank units over alleged MySuper mismanagement because of a carveout in the Victorian Supreme Court Act which bars class actions involving trust property, an appeals court has heard.
Prefab concrete company Evolution Precast Systems failed to install reinforced concrete in Sydney's ill-fated Opal Tower and knew about a prior failure with one of the building's panels, engineer WSP Structures alleges in a cross-claim lobbed in a class action on behalf of residents of the tower.
Water supplier and dam operator Seqwater has won its high-stakes challenge to a ruling finding it liable for the 2011 Queensland floods and sticking it with half the damages owed to thousands of class action members.
Accused war criminal Ben Roberts-Smith has filed an application to bring a claim against the close friend of his ex-wife in a case accusing his former spouse of unlawfully accessing his email account containing privileged communications with lawyers.
Dam operator Seqwater will find out this week if its decision not to settle with group members in a class action over the 2011 Queensland floods has paid off.
A judge has dismissed two cases brought by the Commonwealth Bank, Westpac and other lenders against directors of the failed steel giant Arrium, saying he was not satisfied the directors' representations on loan drawdown notices were false or that the company was insolvent when it went into voluntary administration in April 2016.
A lawyer for accused war criminal Ben Roberts-Smith has told a judge his ex-wife did not honestly disclose whether she had given her close friend access to her former husband's email account, and had misused his confidential and privileged information.
The applicant in a shareholder class action against IOOF wants to add ten new misconduct allegations, including that a relative of a former executive made $69,000 by offloading shares.
Trial in war veteran Ben Roberts-Smith's defamation case over articles accusing him of war crimes has been adjourned until November in light of the current COVID-19 lockdown in Sydney, which a judge noted could be extended beyond the month of August.