E-commerce merchandise importer New Aim is challenging the dismissal of its trade secrets case against a former employee, who gave the contact details of the company’s suppliers to a competitor after jumping ship.
The High Court has unanimously found the Federal Court has no power to allow solicitors to take a cut of a settlement or judgment in a shareholder class action against Blue Sky, saying it would be contrary to rules against contingency fees in NSW.
The applicant in a long-running class action over the government’s live exports ban has lodged an appeal after a judge has found that no additional cattle would have been exported to Indonesia in 2012 and 2013 if the ban had not been in place.
A barrister who claimed a conviction for contempt had “slipped his mind” has lost an appeal of a decision finding he was not a fit and proper person to hold a practicing certificate.
Mercedes-Benz dealers are pressing on with their $650 million battle over the luxury car maker’s move to a fixed-priced agency model, taking their case to the High Court.
The NSW tax office has succeeded on appeal in its fight with Uber over five years of payroll tax totalling more than $81 million, with an appeals court finding that payments made to drivers are taxable.
The operator of a gym previously inside a Bankstown RSL club has scored a partial win on appeal against its new landlord, but has only received nominal damages of $10.
An appeals court has thrown out X Corp’s legal challenge to a compliance notice issued by the eSafety Commissioner to corporate predecessor Twitter over child exploitation material monitoring on its platform.
Private equity firm Goldstone has lost its bid to lodge an appeal before damages are determined, after a judge found it invalidly terminated its managing director’s employment for standing in the way of a deal with her business partner’s son.
A Sydney accountant who was jailed in 2019 for perverting the course of justice has lost his latest battle with the tax office, with a judge tossing four taxation appeals by related entities after finding his evidence about over $21 million in wrongly claimed tax deductions was “entirely lacking in credibility”.