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Two Sydney lawyers have lost an application to set aside bankruptcy notices filed by their insurer claiming over $300,000 in legal costs, after a judge rejected their arguments about an “overarching conspiracy” in the case.
Stock broker Fortrend Securities has filed a suit alleging wealth manager Shaw & Partners sent unsolicited welcome letters to clients as part of a scheme involving two former advisors.
Japanese bank SMBC has foreshadowed an application to add claims against Humm Group after the fintech's subsidiary allegedly misled the bank about receivables under contracts forged by a Forum Group entity.
A judge has rejected arguments by the Fair Work Ombudsman that the CFMMEU should be slugged with a penalty close to the maximum for the conduct of union officers who failed to show entry permits at a worksite, but she has imposed personal penalties against two officers with a record of prior breaches.
The publisher of the Herald Sun has won a bid to include the drug-related arrest of a prominent Melbourne lawyer in its “bad reputation” defence to the solicitor's defamation action.
The ACCC's rejection of a regional network arrangement between Telstra and TPG was "confusing" and the telecos might be free to vary the transaction, says a judge who is overseeing a challenge to the competition regulator's decision.
Fox News CEO Lachlan Murdoch has cited the “editorial interference” of Private Media chairman Eric Beecher and CEO Will Hayward in a successful bid to join them as defendants in his defamation case against the Crikey publisher over an article in June last year.
A judge has found a BHP mine took adverse action against a labour hire worker by excluding him from entering a Queensland mine after he complained about safety, rejecting arguments that the mine could not take adverse action because it did not employ the worker directly.
Two former directors of the Australian unit of BCEG have lost their “urgent” bid to vary freezing orders after a judge found they swindled millions from the company to fund their own developments and buy a luxury apartment.
From the ongoing saga of the high-profile Christian Porter action against the ABC to “backyard” litigation testing the serious harm bar, defamation cases made headlines in 2022, with winners and losers alike shelling out millions to lawyers to protect their reputations.