Former G8 Education chair Jennifer Hutson has lost an appeal of a decision that found she was not unlawfully examined by the corporate regulator over the childcare company’s $162 million hostile takeover bid for Affinity Education Group.
Fox News CEO Lachlan Murdoch has paid $1.3 million to Crikey publisher Private Media for costs incurred successfully defending his defamation suit.
Dominique Grubisa has come up short in her bid to have the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission file formal pleadings in its case alleging she misled students enrolled in her real estate investing and wealth management courses.
A shareholder class action that was filed in the wake of the banking royal commission over AMP’s fees-for-no-service practices has settled for $110 million.
A barrister can’t sidestep a clause in a costs agreement with a solicitor that limited when counsel fees are payable by breaching his disclosure obligations and nullifying the agreement, the High Court has been told.
The QCAT has cleared conservative activist Lyle Shelton of vilification in relation to negative online posts he made about a drag queen story hour at a Brisbane library.
The corporate regulator has failed in its case targeting an individual insolvency practitioner for alleged illegal phoenix activity.
Mercer Superannuation is likely to admit liability in the corporate regulator’s maiden greenwashing case, a court has heard.
In its bid for a 30 per cent group costs order, the applicant in a class action against Insurance Australia Group says the percentage shouldn’t be compared to lower proposed rates — as low as 14 per cent — in a battle to run a class action against Star.
A judge has rejected a request by lawyers for Seven and the TV network’s billionaire chairman, Kerry Stokes, to issue a correction to his published decision ordering the production of over 8,600 emails exchanged with Ben Roberts-Smith’s lawyers in a defamation case.