Events

A class action over the fuel efficiency of thousands of Mitsubishi Triton vehicles can add a new claim over alleged misleading testing, despite the car maker's argument that it has no reasonable chance of succeeding. 

Property listings giant Domain plans to attack the validity of a Deloitte report which was used to support competitor REA Group’s claim that it attracts the buyer for 9 in 10 homes sold, a court has heard.

An appeals court has rejected a Sydney solicitor’s challenge to a finding that he engaged in unsatisfactory professional conduct after he inaccurately recounted a judge’s comments in a letter to a costs assessor.

A Dentons client that paid $45 million for an 82-hectare Denham Court property that was only worth $10.8 million, in what a judge called a "brazen fraud", has sued the law firm for professional negligence.

Mardathoonera woman Raelene Cooper has taken Chevron and offshore petroleum regulator NOPSEMA to court over environmental approvals for a project for maintaining gas production from its Gorgon LNG project in Western Australia.

The Australian Energy Regulator must repay AGL a $25 million penalty secured by the watchdog in a Federal Court case, after the power company prevailed on appeal.

Collapsed steelmaker Arrium's former chief executive has testified during a shareholder class action trial that a five-year business plan projecting a 'V-shaped' turnaround was not an unrealistic pipe dream.

Facing cross-examination in a shareholder class action over Nuix's allegedly misleading IPO prospectus, a senior Macquarie executive has testified that he was comforted by two US law firms' finding that there was nothing untrue in the document. 

A class action over Victoria's hotel quarantine debacle that settled for $125 million will seek a record $37.5 million cut for law firm Quinn Emanuel and $250,000 payment for the lead applicant, which was subjected to "public ridicule and hatred" during the matter.

The Victorian government has told the High Court it had no obligation to act with procedural fairness when it decided to demolish inner-city public housing towers in Melbourne, as it fights a class action’s appeal.