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A group of Victorian barristers says the Bar has a responsibility to make a public statement backing the proposed Voice to Parliament, while others have questioned the “propriety” of speaking out, an email to members reveals.
Law firm Levitt Robinson has filed a second class action against the Western Australian government on behalf of inmates in the state's Banksia Hill detention centre alleging unlawful disability and age discrimination.
Independent member for Sydney Alex Greenwich is preparing to bring a defamation case against One Nation’s NSW leader, Mark Latham, after he published a homophobic post on Twitter last month.
A judge has ordered MLC to pay $10 million for its “serious failure” to pay life insurance benefits to customers undergoing rehabilitation, in an ASIC case that also alleged the insurer failed to promptly update medical terms in policies.
The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has dragged lender Money3 to court for allegedly failing to properly assess the creditworthiness of low-income individuals before saddling them with $11,000 loans for second-hand car purchases.
A judge has ordered a litigation funder that bankrolled a photographer’s unsuccessful copyright claim against CoreLogic to pay indemnity costs to the property data analytics company, saying the funder was not “motivated by any concerns for access to justice”.
A court has tossed a conviction secured in ASIC’s case against a director of collapsed flight booking platform Fly365, saying the case was “doomed to failure.”
The applicant in an investor class action over the collapse of advisory firm Linchpin Capital and Endeavour Securities has raised concerns about the authenticity of Linchpin's business records, which it wants to put into evidence at trial in two months.
An appeals court has found a seven-year non-competition clause in US tech giant DXC Eclipse's agreement with the former director of Melbourne software firm Sable37, which it acquired in 2018, was unreasonable.
Customers of wealth manager Colonial First State were $10 million to $12 million better off without a litigation funder in a class action over the slow transfer of accounts to low cost MySuper funds, a judge has found.