United Petroleum will not face cross-claims by franchisees, with a judge calling the bid “a very colourable application” to create overlap with a class action in the Supreme Court.
ASIC has won its case against insurer HCF Life over a pre-existing condition term that was likely to mislead the public, but failed to convince the court that it was an unfair contract term.
AstraZeneca has brought court proceedings to block Australian drug maker Pharmacor from making a generic version of its heart attack drug Brilinta.
Santos’ plan to reach net zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2040 was “little more than a series of speculations”, a shareholder group has said on the first day of trial in a landmark greenwashing case.
S&P is free to pay for a Rolls-Royce defence in “Rolls-Royce litigation” that alleges the agency engaged in fraud in assigning ratings to risky financial products, a judge has said.
Homes Victoria says the decision to demolish public housing towers in Melbourne — now the subject of a class action — took residents’ human rights into account, but has no documents to show it.
Former radio host Antoinette Lattouf will argue at trial that the ex-chair of the ABC, Ita Buttrose, and managing director David Anderson were involved in the decision to terminate her contract.
Dairy company Care A2 has settled a dispute with Gensco Laboratories over an agreement to distribute its infant formula in the US that went sour.
The funder bankrolling a class action by residents allegedly displaced by the construction of the $16.8 billion WestConnex tunnel has abandoned the case.
A class action targeting Westpac subsidiary BT Funds and Tal Life Insurance was discontinued after documents discovered by the companies caused funder Woodsford to bow out.