The applicant in an employment class action against The Reject Shop is appealing a court decision that found it could amend the case and redefine the group members but not retroactively.
A judge has hit Qantas with a $90 million penalty for unlawfully outsourcing its ground crew staff during the COVID-19 pandemic, saying the airline was “the wrong kind of sorry”.
Google has agreed to pay a $55 million penalty for making anti-competitive agreements requiring Telstra and Optus to pre-install Google Search on Android devices they sold.
A judge has rejected claims that MinterEllison acted improperly towards a potential witness in a sexual harassment suit against the WA Department of Justice, saying the firm is entitled to make unsolicited contact with potential witnesses.
A former Downer EDI project manager has lost a bid for court orders forcing NSW’s Independent Commission Against Corruption to remove a report into a probe relating to Transport for NSW and Inner West Council tenders.
A judge has dismissed a case by Metro Cinemas against a NSW council, finding a lease agreement did not require the council to replace the cinema’s aging seats.
A judge has signed off on a $59 million settlement in a class action accusing five banks of foreign exchange rate-rigging, while bemoaning the failure of successive attorneys-general to advance reforms clarifying the court’s power to make class closure orders.
Builder Richard Crookes has won its costs after mediation was aborted in a case by the owners corporation for a building in Sydney’s Erskineville over aluminium composite panel cladding installed nine years ago.
A judge has rejected Roy Hill’s bid for a declaration that two of its mining leases could not be impeached as long as they are the subject of a registered mortgage, saying it would preclude any challenges.
The public body in charge of managing the Murray Darling’s water resources has slammed as “incoherent” a class action’s claims that it owes a duty of care to protect farmers and irrigators against economic loss.