Mosaic Brands has appealed a ruling ordering it to comply with a request for documents from the Australian Communications and Media Authority over its potential violations of the Spam Act.
Clive Palmer will seek special leave from the High Court to appeal a ruling from the Queensland Court of Appeal ordering him to return $102 million borrowed before the collapse of Queensland Nickel in 2016, and has demanded that the company’s liquidators return the money he paid following the ruling.
A judge has questioned the legal disbursements sought to be approved in a $30 million class action settlement against Westpac over allegedly excessive life insurance premiums, particularly the “extraordinarily large” barrister fees charged in the case.
Australian app developer Civi Corp must hand over documents that could help Snapchat in its defence against a US lawsuit alleging it infringed on patents for digital photograph technology, a court has ordered.
Cladding manufacturer Fairview Architectural must allow the group members in a class action over allegedly combustible cladding products to search the company’s offices and access electronically stored information to carry out discovery, a judge has ruled.
A judge has allowed a key US-based witness in ASIC’s case against former Quintis director Frank Wilson who will not submit to 14 days in hotel quarantine to give evidence by video link.
Consolidation of two consumer class actions against Allianz would do away with competition in a contest to lead a single case that would force a drop in the contingency fee rates of the rival law firms, the insurance giant has told a court.
The Northern Territory government has reached a settlement in a class action brought on behalf of NT youth detainees seeking compensation for alleged race discrimination and human rights abuses.
GetSwift has reached an agreement to settle a shareholder class action accusing the logistics company of misleading statements over contracts, avoiding a trial that was set to begin in two months.
The director of the Forum Group companies accused of a $360 million fraud involving at least three major banks can’t return to Australia from Greece because he has COVID-19, his lawyer has told the Federal Court.