Barristers

The Herald Sun has apologised to Victorian deputy Liberal leader Sam Groth and his wife, Brittany, over articles at the centre of a privacy and defamation lawsuit brought by the pair.

Underpayments class actions against Coles and Woolworths want to expand their claims to cover a longer time period, which would leave the supermarket giants with even bigger remediation bills than the $780 million estimated in the wake of a finding that underpayments cannot be set off.

The NSW government is fighting a bid to add a direct discrimination claim by the lead applicant in a class action alleging racial discrimination over the placement of children in state care. 

A court has rejected a bid to expand a lawsuit over a Chinese investor's $27.5 million contract to purchase a building at 99 Queen Street in Melbourne to join the matriarch of the "very wealthy" family.

The Geelong Football Club has launched a bid to summarily dismiss or strike out claims alleging breaches of occupational health and safety regulations in a concussion class action against the AFL.

University of Sydney staff members who claim a professor unlawfully “named and shamed” them as pro-Israel have lost their bid to continue their racial discrimination case as a class action, while the university has lost a summary dismissal bid in a similar case.

One Nation's Pauline Hanson was not motivated by racism but provoked by the hypocrisy of rival politician Mehreen Faruqi when she fired off her "piss off back to Pakistan" tweet, her lawyer told the Full Federal Court Monday. But Faruqi's barrister has told the appeals court the accusation of hypocrisy was itself racist.

The Takeovers Panel has agreed to hear Mayne Pharma's latest dispute with Cosette over the US drug maker's attempts to walk away from their $672 million merger agreement and extended the timeline for completing the deal.

The owner of Sydney developer Coronation Property has sued Fairfax for defamation over a Sydney Morning Herald story that allegedly linked him to arson attacks on two childcare centres and the home of YouTuber Jordan Shanks. 

ASIC has lodged an appeal of a ruling that tossed its conflicted remuneration case against Freedom Insurance's former boss and another executive over a sales incentive scheme.