Appeals

Commonwealth Bank and other lenders of failed steel giant Arrium have lost a second attempt to put two of the company's directors on the hook for alleged misleading representations on loan drawdown notices ahead of its $2.8 billion collapse.

US facial recognition company Clearview breached Australian privacy laws by trawling the web for photos of Australians for use by law enforcement agencies, the Administrative Appeals Tribunal has found.

The state of Victoria has foreshadowed a High Court challenge in its fight to stay a class action over the 2020 hotel quarantine in light of criminal action, an appeal it said raised issues relating to the “increasing and regular prosecutions” of government and corporate entities over health and safety laws.

If Qantas triumphs in its High Court appeal of a ruling that found it violated the Fair Work Act when it outsourced ground crew at the peak of the COVID-19 pandemic, it would create a "whack-a-mole" legal right to terminate disadvantaged people, the Transport Workers Union has argued.

An appeals court has set aside a barrister’s $320,000 bill for a case initially estimated to cost $60,000 in counsel fees, applying a “purposive approach” to the rules governing lawyers' disclosure obligations.

A former chief accountant for MUR Shipping who claims he was pressured to retire has won an appeal in his age discrimination case, bumping his damages award up from $20,000 to around $230,000.

Two ex-directors of Chinese construction and engineering firm BCEG who were found to have defrauded the company have succeeded in clawing back a portion of their costs of a partially successful appeal which reduced the amount owing to their former employee by around $12.5 million.

The state of Victoria has lost its appeal bid to stay a class action brought over the 2020 hotel quarantine debacle in light of a pending criminal action against the Department of Health.

Damages for reduction in value under the Australian Consumer Law are at the centre of competing special leave applications to the High Court filed by Toyota and the lead applicant in a class action over defective diesel filters.

A lawyer's role in litigation is not to draw conclusions on the existence of facts or the outcome of a case, an appeals court has ruled in throwing out a personal costs order against a solicitor for filing a defence in a case his client ultimately lost.