Events

A judge has rejected Forte Construction's bid to overhaul its defence to $6.3 million in claims by the liquidators of collapsed real estate fund manager iProsperity, saying the company had shown "contumelious disregard" for the court's earlier orders.

A judge has approved an $18.1 million settlement in an underpayments class action against Sydney Trains, with $2 million to be deducted for legal costs.

Clothing giant H&M has resolved a lawsuit brought by its former head of human resources in Australia, who accused the company of breaching employment laws. 

One Nation politician Pauline Hanson has lost her appeal of a ruling that found she breached the Racial Discrimination Act with a tweet that said Greens senator Mehreen Faruqi should “piss off back to Pakistan”.

Two Deloitte reports commissioned by a Swiss law firm for Credit Suisse are protected by legal professional privilege despite access given to financial regulators investigating the collapse of supply chain financier Greensill. 

The National Cancer Foundation has defeated a challenge to its Brown Nose Day trade mark used for bowel cancer fundraising, with the Full Court finding it is not deceptively similar to SIDS Kids’ Red Nose Day mark. 

The Northern Territory has been hit with a class action over the alleged discriminatory treatment of Aboriginal Community Police Officers.

An appeals court has rejected a landowner's bid to remove a section of the Grand Pacific Walk north of Wollongong because the popular walkway deprived it of car access to its coastal property, ruling the walkway did not infringe its right of access.

Australian renewables company Goldwind has taken engineer Zenviron to court, alleging it's on the hook for $2.6 million in road rectification payments related to the construction of the Moorabool wind farm in Victoria.

Magnamail has defeated an ACCC suit alleging it misled customers by representing they were eligible for major prizes if they ordered from its catalogues, with a judge finding the mail order company's representation that customers 'could' win major prizes was true.