Developer CIP Group must fork over another $1.17 million in further security for costs in a derivative case against entities associated with a 600-lot development in Brisbane.
In the first-ever civil penalty proceedings for breaches of the Privacy Act, pathology services provider Australian Clinical Labs has been ordered to pay $5.8 million over a 2022 data breach that compromised the sensitive personal information of 223,000 customers of its Medlab business.
A former authorised representative of Resilium Insurance Broking has failed to persuade an appeals court that the intermediary network breached a contract by providing its client data to a new representative.
The liquidator for collapsed property developer Monarch Tower has lost its appeal seeking an extension of time to bring voidable transaction claims said to be worth $27 million against 13 individuals and companies.
Green iron startup Element Zero is challenging a bid by Fortescue for access to nine million seized documents in their trade secrets spat, saying its rival has not met the test for proving inadequate discovery of material.
A judge has ordered federal prosecutors to drop a criminal tax fraud case against a medical researcher, finding an ATO officer lied and tampered with evidence during the probe.
Property group Catalyst has won $31.7 million from a trustee corporation of the Presbyterian Church of Queensland over a suite of scuppered transactions for land and aged care homes.
Engineering firm WSP may seek to permanently stay a new suit by Canberra builder Morris Construction that claims it should be on the hook for engineering and design failures by a subsidiary, the latest fight between the parties over a troubled Kingston development.
Telstra has been ordered to pay $18 million in ACCC proceedings, after a court found the telco misled thousands of broadband customers about the speed of its budget internet provider Belong.
A judge has questioned whether an investor in failed Banksia Securities can bring a case against a court-appointed receiver over his support for a class action settlement later found to involve deception by a team of lawyers.