E-commerce merchandise importer New Aim is challenging the dismissal of its trade secrets case against a former employee, who gave the contact details of the company’s suppliers to a competitor after jumping ship.
Food giant Goodman Fielder has secured a $10.5 million judgment in a case against a former employee.
A construction company working on accommodation for Rio Tinto FIFO workers has won its bid to set aside a $1 million creditor’s demand by a subcontractor, with a judge finding the demand was an abuse of process.
A judge has spiked Piper Alderman’s class action alleging Google abuses its dominance in digital advertising, favouring a competing case run jointly by two other firms, despite suggesting such arrangements hinted at lawyers “passing the prize around”.
A Sydney barrister who won defamation proceedings against Nine over an Instagram-famous cavoodle has sought to disqualify a judge from hearing a dispute with her solicitors over costs, citing a lunch he had with Nine’s silk.
A judge has made winding up orders against companies connected to Lion Property Group and allowed Victoria Police to access a confidential report from the luxury Melbourne developer’s provisional liquidators.
Construction company Lipman has struck out in its bid to claw back a $7 million payment determination made in A-Civil’s favour, with a court finding no error by an adjudicator.
A class action against aged care provider Bupa faced tough questions by a judge on Monday, who grilled counsel over the case’s theory of loss. And the answers — rather than reassuring her — raised the spectre of a summary judgment fight.
Women-only social media app Giggle for Girls has told the Full Court its exclusion of a trans woman qualifies as a special measure under the Sex Discrimination Act, as the app was intended to benefit some, if not all, women.
A class action against Sony alleging it used restrictive trade practices to block competition with its Playstation store will likely need to make “substantial” changes to its case, a court has heard.