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Google must produce details of email sender to disendorsed Labor candidate
A court has ordered Google to provide former Victorian Labor candidate Nurul Khan with account information and IP addresses relating to an anonymous email sent to the ALP last November, which led to his disendorsement by the party just two weeks before the state election. 
Judge slams AUSTRAC’s ‘misleading’ $450M penalty deal with Crown
A proposed interest-free payment plan for a $450 million penalty agreed to between Crown Resorts and AUSTRAC has been questioned by a judge, who said it would have “the Commonwealth of Australia act as the Crown’s banker” for two years.
Mining magnate Gina Rinehart can’t fight use of arbitration docs as trial in family feud begins
Hancock Prospecting can't challenge an order that documents produced in arbitration are fair game, as the mining company's chief, Gina Rinehart, battles her children in a trial over ownership of a valuable tenement set to start Monday.
Solicitor loses argument that costs assessors can’t get do-over
A Sydney solicitor has lost a 10-year-old dispute with a former client over fees, after unsuccessfully claiming a cost assessor’s conduct in issuing multiple preliminary cost certificates ran afoul of the Legal Profession Act.
Hytera appeals ruling it stole Motorola’s code, copied computer programs
Chinese radio manufacturer Hytera has launched an appeal of a ruling that it misappropriated the source code of US mobile phone giant Motorola in a case of "substantial industrial theft".
Care A2 loses bid for freezing order in case against Sports Flick exec
Infant formula maker Care A2 Plus has lost a bid for a freezing order against the former chief financial officer of Sports Flick as it appeals a finding she had no involvement in a fellow executive’s "deceitful" scheme over a $5 million World Cup streaming deal. 
Monster Energy says patent for branded pull tabs invention not valid
Monster Energy has hit back at an inventor’s claim it infringed his intellectual property by using his method for laser-etched branded pull tabs on cans, saying the invention is obvious.
‘Cloud cuckoo land’: Judge questions class action’s bid to beef up export ban damages claim
A judge overseeing a class action over the government's total ban on live cattle exports to Indonesia has challenged the applicant’s bid to base group member damages on an increased number of cows that could have been exported, three years after the lead applicant won a $2.9 million judgment.
‘Aldi bag of cash’ suit against Holding Redlich resolved, court hears
The NSW Labor Party has agreed to drop its case against law firm Holding Redlich for providing allegedly negligent advice over a $100,000 illegal cash donation delivered in an Aldi shopping bag.
Missing CCTV footage from night of Brittany Higgins’ alleged rape ‘very concerning’, court told
ABC and Network Ten are “very concerned” that Parliament House claims to not have CCTV footage from the night former Liberal staffer Bruce Lehrmann allegedly raped Brittany Higgins, and have flagged an application to question a government officer over the claim.