An appeals court has thrown out X Corp’s legal challenge to a compliance notice issued by the eSafety Commissioner to corporate predecessor Twitter over child exploitation material monitoring on its platform.
The receiver for failed Banksia Securities wants a release from claims stemming from his role, including a case by investors who lost their life savings only to be duped by the class action team that represented them.
Carpet supplier Godfrey Hirst wants more discovery to back up its claims that a competitor’s distressed business bounced back after its former general counsel — allegedly aided in part by Piper Alderman — jumped ship along with a senior manager, taking “thousands” of documents.
OpenAI has successfully blocked an Australian company’s bid to trade mark the name of an AI immigration service that uses the suffix ‘GPT’.
A judge has allowed Charter Hall to respond to developer Pro-Invest’s expert evidence in a case claiming $100 million in damages for the lost opportunity to build a 26-storey hotel in the Sydney CBD.
An appeals court has declined to revive a negligence case against a solicitor accused by a former client of failing to advise him on key clauses in a rescinded $1.7 million sale contract.
Mayne Pharma has said it may seek to shut out US drug maker Cosette’s expert evidence in proceedings over the purported termination of their $672 million merger.
Private equity firm Goldstone has lost its bid to lodge an appeal before damages are determined, after a judge found it invalidly terminated its managing director’s employment for standing in the way of a deal with her business partner’s son.
A Sydney accountant who was jailed in 2019 for perverting the course of justice has lost his latest battle with the tax office, with a judge tossing four taxation appeals by related entities after finding his evidence about over $21 million in wrongly claimed tax deductions was “entirely lacking in credibility”.
A fight over legal professional privilege is looming in a case against HWL Ebsworth and a former partner by investors in projects by property developer Belmore 88.