Mastercard says legal professional privilege remained over a document after a junior lawyer “inadvertently” sent it to the ACCC in 2020 while the credit card giant was trying to dissuade the regulator from continuing an investigation into alleged anti-competitive conduct.
A former ANZ trader that sued the bank five years ago for allegedly sacking him for complaining about the bank’s attempted manipulation of the bank bill swap rate wants the trial date pushed out after receiving thousands of documents from the bank.
A junior Ashurst lawyer’s failure to register a drug wholesaler’s $51 million security interest over a group of Infinity pharmacies was inadvertent, a judge has found in granting a bid to extend the deadline for registration.
The public body in charge of managing the Murray Darling’s water resources has slammed as “incoherent” a class action’s claims that it owes a duty of care to protect farmers and irrigators against economic loss.
The corporate regulator should not be immune from the risk of special costs for actions doomed to fail, says a judge who flayed ASIC last month for bringing a case against TerraCom directors it should have known was a dud.
Developer CBS Commercial has asked a court to summarily dismiss a defects suit over a luxury lakeside development in the leafy Canberra suburb of Kingston, arguing the case has no reasonable prospects of success.
A judge has dismissed a bid by a group of labour hire companies to disqualify former Labor MP now Fair Work Commission deputy president Terri Butler from same job, same pay cases for apprehended bias.
A landmark finding that Apple and Google misused their market power will boost competition claims — including class actions — against other dominant digital market players and could prompt the ACCC to consider action, experts told Lawyerly.
Maurice Blackburn is seeking a 33 per cent cut of any settlement in a class action against Sportsbet, arguing that law firms “doing well” for themselves by running class actions is an inherent feature of the contingency fee scheme.
National Australia Bank and its home loan lender subsidiary have been ordered to pay a $15.5 million penalty after admitting to mishandling hundreds of customer hardship applications.