Judgment

A judge has approved a $55 million settlement in an underpayments class action against budget grocery chain Aldi on behalf of workers who were allegedly denied pay for work done before and after shifts.

Apple has been ordered to reinstate Epic Games' Fortnite game to its App Store in Australia and allow developers to offer in-app payment methods to Australians, after it was found to have breached competition laws.

The owner of the Pullman Adelaide Hotel has partly won an appeal of a judge’s decision refusing it access to documents about the state planning commission’s approval of a student housing development next to its luxury hotel.

A court has approved a $125 million settlement in the class action over Victoria's botched hotel quarantine program, and has largely signed off on the plaintiff's firm proposed contingency fee.

An IP Australia delegate has rejected olive oil maker Cobram Estate’s bid to register a trade mark featuring the phrase 'premium quality great taste', saying other traders should be free to use the label for similar goods.

A court has signed off on a $28.1 million settlement in an immigration detention class action against the Commonwealth, including nearly $11 million in costs for the firm that ran the case.

The company that paid $60 million for bankrupt Jon Adgemis' Noah's Backpackers hotel in Bondi Beach has been ordered to cough up $6 million in GST refunds to a Singapore special purpose vehicle that arranged a loan for the purchase.

A judge has awarded investment firm Merricks Capital $46 million in its lawsuit against tech entrepreneur Peter Crown and his wife over a loan to purchase land in the Southern Highlands.

The NSW Land and Environment Court has rejected a bid to temporararily block developer Clarence Property from building artificial frog ponds in Brunswick Heads as part of a 123-lot residential development.

The former director of Villawood Management is calling for a further stay of a ruling greenlighting the land developer's bid to provide litigation documents to the Australian Federal Police for investigation of alleged criminal activity.