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Actress Charlotte MacInnes took the stand in her defamation case against Rebel Wilson on Wednesday in a high-profile trial stemming from an incident during the filming of Wilson's directorial debut, 'The Deb'.

The parents of Luxcon boss Ilya Melnikoff have failed to convince a judge they should not have to pay back a mortgage and guarantee to lenders who gave their son's companies a $13.9 million advance to buy property in Byron Bay and a $3.8 million tax-related loan.

A Woolworths executive facing cross-examination in the ACCC's case over alleged illusory discounts has denied that price increases were anything other than a reaction to inflation and a “tsunami” of supplier cost increase requests. 

A former Queensland minister allegedly threatened to trash a $1.6 billion contract for the Toowoomba Second Range Crossing unless a consortium led by Acciona continued to work with the CFMEU, an inquiry into the union has heard. 

Silk and former chair of the state's legal watchdog Sam Hay KC is the latest judicial appointee to Victoria's Supreme Court, joining the bench at a time when the court's docket is bulging.

The word 'day' in thousands of building contracts at the centre of a class action against Perth builder BGC Housing Group refers to a calendar, not working, day, a judge has said in a ruling that may have a significant impact on damages in the case.

The word 'day' in thousands of building contracts at the centre of a class action against Perth builder BGC Housing Group refers to a calendar, not working, day, a judge has said in a ruling that may have a significant  impact on damages in the case.

The Full Court has found an employee of e-commerce merchandise importer New Aim breached his duty of confidence by providing contact details of the company's suppliers, stored on WeChat on his personal phone, to a competitor. 

A judge has hit a container systems company with indemnity costs for tendering hundreds of pages of irrelevant evidence in a trade mark dispute and warned "future litigants that fail to heed this caution" face costs risks.

Hearing the ACCC's opening remarks in its case against Woolworths over 'illusory' discounts, a judge has questioned if consumers would have descended into the level of analysis suggested by the regulator when shopping.