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New Aim appeals trade secrets loss over employee’s WeChat contacts
Appeals 2025-08-07 11:54 pm By Christine Caulfield

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.

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Goodman Fielder secures orders for $10.5M from employee
Food and Beverage 2025-08-07 11:38 pm By Cat Fredenburgh

Food giant Goodman Fielder has secured a $10.5 million judgment in a case against a former employee.

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Court quashes $1M statutory demand in row over Rio Tinto contract
Construction 2025-08-07 11:52 pm By Andy Sidler

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. 

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Court awards Google adtech class action prize to cooperating law firms
Competition & Consumer Protection 2025-08-06 11:07 pm By Cindy Cameronne

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”. 

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Barrister moves to disqualify cavoodle case judge over lunch with silk
Defamation 2025-08-05 11:05 pm By Cindy Cameronne

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. 

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Lion Property Group entities wound up, as Victoria Police eyes liquidators’ report
Construction 2025-08-06 11:50 pm By Julia Kanapathippillai

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.

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Lipman loses $7M payment claim row with A-Civil over Eugowra emergency housing
Construction 2025-08-06 11:17 pm By Andy Sidler

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. 

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Attacked as untenable, Bupa class action faces potential summary dismissal bid
Class Actions 2025-08-04 11:31 pm By Christine Caulfield

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.

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Giggle for Girls’ exclusion of trans woman protected as special measure, Full Court told
Discrimination 2025-08-04 11:54 pm By Andy Sidler

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. 

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Applicant may press restart in Sony Playstation class action
Competition & Consumer Protection 2025-08-04 11:55 pm By Cindy Cameronne

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. 

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