Judges

The Supreme Court of Victoria has been urged not to meddle with a 25 per cent group costs order in a junk insurance class action that settled for $170 million, in what would be the court's second blessing of a law firm contingency fee.

A judge has rejected claims from Super Retail Group's former top lawyer that suppression orders over details of an alleged settlement should be lifted so she can respond to the company's "defamatory" version of events in the media, calling her claims "a bare assertion".

The owners corporation of an apartment complex in Sydney’s north shore can bring claims against a council over several million dollars in alleged defects, despite a four-year delay. 

A judge is not ready to hear a bid to summarily dismiss a "long and tortured" case alleging University of Sydney postgraduate students were underpaid, calling it a "monumental waste of time".

Johnson & Johnson has slammed a class action over allegedly ineffective cold and flu medications, telling a judge it has "real concerns" with how the case has been framed.

The owners of ten townhouses in Rosehill, NSW have secured a $3.8 million default judgment against their builder Dominium Homes.

Transgrid contractor Elecnor unlawfully denied the Electrical Trades Union access to 47 migrant workers on Australia’s largest transmission project, a court has found. 

The Port of Newcastle has lost its bid to move a lawsuit filed by Glencore Coal over $870,000 in alleged overcharged shipping fees to the Federal Court. 

Mayfield Development is barred from bringing claims already traversed in a competition case by the ACCC that was thrown out by a court, NSW Ports has told an appeals court.

Fonterra, which has taken cheese maker Bega to court to resolve a dispute over the dairy company's plans to exit the Australian market, is resisting a bid for discovery in the case.