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Bayer can’t dismiss Essure injuries as ‘common women’s symptoms’, class action trial told
Pharmaceutical giant Bayer cannot write off debilitating chronic pain and bleeding which patients allegedly experienced after being implanted with Essure contraceptives as “common women's symptoms”, a court has heard in the first day of trial in a long-running class action.
Latitude won’t pay ransom for stolen customer data
Latitude Financial will not pay a ransom demanded by criminals after 14 million customer records were stolen in a "malicious" cyberattack.
Crypto exchange Binance loses Australian financial services licence
ASIC has cancelled Binance Australia's financial services licence at the request of the crypto exchange amid a review of the exchanges' classification of retail clients.
Lehrmann says ABC defamed him with live broadcast of Higgins’ Press Club speech
Former Liberal staffer Bruce Lehrmann has accused the Australian Broadcasting Corporation of a “contemptuous attempt" to prejudice the jury in a criminal trial over his alleged rape of former colleague Brittany Higgins in Parliament House.
College’s enrolment practices should be ‘condemned’, Full Court says in ACCC win
The Full Federal Court has upheld a finding that online educator Captain Cook College engaged in systemic unconscionable conduct by enrolling thousands of unsuitable students, who accrued $60 million in debt but never finished their courses. 
Law firm gets interim $22.6M from J&J settlement, promises to return any excess
Shine Lawyers can deduct 50 per cent of its fees and all of its costs from a $300 million settlement in pelvic mesh class actions against Johnson & Johnson while a judge mulls whether the law firm's total bill is fair and reasonable.
Bruce Lehrmann files defamation case against the ABC
Former Liberal staffer Bruce Lehrmann has filed defamation proceedings against the ABC, the third such lawsuit he has brought after suing Ten and a News Corp Unit over publications airing the rape allegations of his former colleague Brittany Higgins.
Court OKs walk-away settlement with former RCR Tomlinson directors
A judge has approved a walk-away settlement with two former directors of RCR Tomlinson in a shareholder class action against the failed engineering company.
Sydney silk reprimanded for alleged sexual harassment and workplace bullying
A leading construction and commercial law silk in Sydney has been subject to a reprimand by the NSW legal services commissioner for alleged sexual harassment and workplace bullying. 
ChatGPT faces landmark defamation claim by Reserve Bank whistleblower
Artificial intelligence chatbot ChatGPT is facing a landmark defamation claim by Hepburn shire council mayor Brian Hood, alleging it incorrectly identified him as someone facing charges in a foreign bribery scandal rather than his role as whistleblower.