Events

A judge has given the nod to an amendment in a class action over Victoria's COVID-era hotel quarantine program that will exclude non-retail and hospitality businesses, but he won't make the order operate retrospectively.

A legal showdown between actress Rebel Wilson and the co-producers of her film 'The Deb' will commence next month, two weeks after Wilson successfully defended defamation proceedings by the film's lead actress.

A shareholder class action against Nuix is the first to test statutory due diligence defences available under the Corporations Act, a court heard Tuesday, when the class action took the court to internal emails describing the company as "tragically hopeless" at winning new business.

A native title group has won an appeal to the High Court over a 30-year licence granted by the Northern Territory government to Fortune Agribusiness to extract groundwater for irrigation on its property.

Alliance Living has failed on appeal of a security for costs order in a dispute with a subcontractor on a project to restore Sydney's Gaden House, with NSW's top court saying the builder's failure to pay a judgment debt was relevant.

US real estate firm Savills has failed to summarily dismiss a lawsuit alleging sexual harassment, which a judge said if true "indicated a culture of discriminatory sexist behaviour of a serious kind".

The fallacy that shareholders must precisely prove the amount of loss caused by a listed company's breaches has finally been exposed by the Full Federal Court, a trial judge has been told in a class action over the collapse of steel maker Arrium.

KPMG failed to bring the necessary scepticism to the task of auditing failing steel manufacturer Arrium, instead leaving contradictory evidence unresolved and giving the company a clean bill of health, a shareholder class action has told the court.

Hitting back at a class action's claims that it breached gambling laws with its 'fast code' betting, Sportsbet told a trial judge on Tuesday its representatons about the service were true, and that in any case punters weren't entitled to damages that didn't account for winnings.

A judge has rejected Domino's bid for a 30 per cent reduction in the costs it owes after losing an underpayments class action, saying the pizza chain will likely be on the hook for around $10 million in costs.