Events

In the first of dozens of similar cases to be decided, the Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal has found Uber breached its contract with a driver by deactivating his account over seven complaints.

More than just subjective intention is relevant to the defence of honest concurrent use in trade mark law, non-bank lender Firstmac has told the High Court in its dispute with buy now, pay later giant Zip Co.

Former Carlton Football Club president and ex-chief executive of PricewaterhouseCoopers, Luke Sayers, has been sued by his estranged wife for defamation over a lewd social media post that eventually led to his resignation from the football club.

An appeals court has handed BHP a win in a dispute with Aquila Steel over the boundary between their neighbouring mining tenements, rejecting Aquila’s “fanciful” argument about the construction of a 58-year-old document.

A Sydney developer has filed proceedings against the environment minister after a delegate found its proposal to build two towers in Parramatta would have “clearly unacceptable” impacts on views from Australia's oldest public building. 

A Hong Kong company has won its bid to claw back funds from the family of a deceased debtor who transferred a Sydney property to his wife as part of a purported separation agreement, with a court finding the transaction was intended to defraud creditors.

BHP has filed a High Court challenge to orders requiring it to pay labour hire workers at mines in central Queensland the same as its workers.

The mayor of a Perth local council has been awarded $250,000 in damages for defamation against a constituent who made a series of Facebook posts falsely alleging that he was misusing a public office.

More than 38,000 retail investors have received nearly $40 million in refunds after an ASIC investigation found “widespread weaknesses” in how issuers of contracts for difference products comply with their obligations. 

A court has largely set aside examination orders against executives and solicitors for oil and gas company Moreton Resources and MRV Metals, finding they were an abuse of process.