Former Liberal staffer Bruce Lehrmann has lost his challenge to a finding that that he raped colleague Brittany Higgins, with an appeals court going further in finding Lehrmann was not just recklessly indifferent to Higgins’ consent, but knew she was not consenting and “proceeded nonetheless”.
Nine wants indemnity costs against celebrity surgeon Munjed Al Muderis, claiming his defamation case over reports critical of his promotion of an experimental procedure, which the court found were substantially true, was an abuse of process.
Facebook owner Meta has argued the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission has “misallocated responsibility” in its three-year-old case over scam cryptocurrency ads on the social media platform.
A homophobic tweet aimed at independent Sydney MP Alex Greenwich may have approached “vulgar abuse” but was just part of the cut and thrust of Australian political debate, former One Nation politician Mark Latham has said.
Singapore’s CapitaLand has secured judgment in the Federal Court against a missing executive accused of embezzling the real estate asset manager’s funds.
An appeals court has overturned the dismissal of a sexual harassment case and ordered a new trial after finding a judge did not consider crucial evidence and relied on “a preconception of how a victim would act”.
Santos has failed to convince a judge that it should not provide documents relied on by NOPSEMA to approve the company’s environmental plan for its Reindeer gas field in judicial review proceedings.
A judge has ordered Facebook owner Meta to file its defence in the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission’s three-year-old case over scam cryptocurrency ads on the social media platform.
Meta has lost its latest bid to strike out the consumer regulator’s case alleging it failed to put up “reasonable safeguards” to prevent scam cryptocurrency ads on its Facebook platform.
Journalist Lisa Wilkinson has told a court her qualified privilege defence was wrongly rejected in ex-Liberal staffer Bruce Lehrmann’s defamation case, arguing the trial judge focused too heavily on the Network Ten’s reporting of the difficulties Brittany Higgins faced in reporting the rape at the centre of the case.