Stephen Lloyd

The High Court is hearing two challenges to the government's kids social media ban this week, with Reddit arguing the Commonwealth “cannot justify” the burden on the freedom of political communication.

The advocacy group that's challenging the government's under-16s social media ban has hit back at the Commonwealth’s allegation that it lacks standing, telling the High Court the ban is having “profound” effects on its members. 

A class action against Allergan over recalled breast implants is trying again to strike out the US drug company’s defence that there was no known causal link between its implants and a type of cancer at the time of supply.

The state of NSW has dodged a bid to strike out its defence in a class action accusing it of unfair prosecution of south coast Indigenous groups for engaging in cultural fishing practices.

A class action against Allergan over recalled breast implants has lost its bid to strike out the US drug company’s defence that there was no known causal link between its implants and a certain form of cancer at the time of supply.

A court has tossed a lawsuit by the Wilderness Society alleging NOPSEMA failed to ensure Santos has the financial means to decommission its Reindeer gas field off the coast of Karratha in Western Australia.

By the time Australia's emissions targets were set in 2015, the effects of climate change were already being felt in the Torres Strait, the Commonwealth has told an appeals court, saying a class action over Islanders' cultural loss can't prove causation.

The law of negligence should be expanded to recognise cultural loss as a compensable form of harm, a group of Torres Strait Islanders argue in challenging a ruling tossing their class action against the government.

Hotly contested political issues should not be considered a judicial "no-go zone" that leaves policy decisions on climate change outside the reach of the courts, a landmark class action has told an appeals court.

Activist group Friends of Australian Rock Art have alleged environment and water minister Murray Watt "cherry picked" potential economic and social benefits of Woodside's North West Shelf project while ignoring the harms.