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Former president of the Melbourne Football Club and Clayton Utz veteran Glen Bartlett has lost a bid to keep his defamation case against four MFC board members in Western Australia, with a judge finding the “relevant characters overwhelmingly continue to live in Melbourne.”
Sportsbet has won an injunction preventing the owner of the sportsbet.com domain from prosecuting an action in the US, which a judge said sought to interfere with an Australian domain name battle “in the most stark fashion.”
Hospitality giant Mantle Group has been found to have systematically ripped off employees and could face a federal police investigation for giving misleading evidence to the workplace umpire.
Hitting back at ASIC's claims it misled investors and breached disclosure rules, technology company Nuix says it had no knowledge it was failing to meet its FY21 forecast and didn’t need to disclose to investors draft documents showing missed internal targets.
American fast food chain In-N-Out Burgers has won an injunction against a Queensland 'ghost kitchen' that operates solely through meal delivery apps, after it failed to comply with court-ordered undertakings.
A judge has opened the administration of a $300 million settlement in a pelvic mesh class action to a competitive bidding process, shortly after another judge said law firms were not uniquely qualified to distribute class action spoils.
The applicant who lost a class action against animal health giant Zoetis over alleged side effects resulting from its Hendra virus horse vaccine has filed an appeal, arguing the judge should have found the vaccine was not of acceptable quality.
A costs report in a settled class action against Woolworths that recommended almost $800,000 in legal fee deductions failed to wrestle with a key factor in weighing the proportionality of the costs, a judge has said.
The man behind the Twitter handle Stock Swami has been ordered to pay $275,000 in damages to Tolga Kumova, after a judge found his tweets defamed the mining investor by accusing him of insider trading, misleading the market, and running a pump and dump scheme.
Lawyers for respondents in defamation litigation have been put on notice for their practice of tossing defences around like grenades in armed combat -- it isn't going to fly any more, warns a judge whose docket is stacked with high profile cases.