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During her final day in the witness box, actress Rebel Wilson has denied claims that she was behind the hacking of the Snapchat account of 'The Deb' star Charlotte MacInnes.

A court has dismissed a challenge by ISPT to a $20 million tax assessment by the NSW State Revenue's Office over two acquisitions that increased its stake in Fort Street Real Estate Capital Fund.

Lawyers running a class action against Qantas over flight cancellations during COVID-19 will take home $15 million from a $105 million settlement, while the funder is set to receive another $25 million, a court has heard.

A former director of marketing companies linked to the failed Shield and First Guardian funds says ASIC's 14-month investigation has left him facing a travel ban and freezing orders but no substantive allegations.

Mastercard considered threatening Coles with losing its discounted interchange fees to rival Woolworths if the supermarket chain re-routed customer debit and credit transactions away from the payments giant, a trial judge has heard in the ACCC's misuse of market power case.

Three years after filing, the class actions against Hyundai and Kia are trying to pinpoint the defect at the heart of the cases, with the car manufacturers complaining that the newest pleading, which seeks to expand the claims to include an additional 380,000 vehicles, is still missing key details. 

The operator of a 4,000-space car park at the Grand Central shopping centre in Toowoomba, which is part of a $500 million redevelopment, has lost its fight with the tax office over fringe tax related to employee parking. 

Epic Games has told a judge that Apple is treating Australian competition laws with “arrogant disrespect” and urged him to order injunctions after he found the tech giant engaged in anti-competitive conduct in the app marketplace.

A Western Sydney council has lost its bid to keep expert evidence in an arbitration with a builder under wraps in its $7 million case alleging a Sydney architect is liable for defects in a tennis court complex. 

A Phoenix Property Investors special purpose vehicle has won a $57.75 million judgment against developer Rockdale Central Finco in a dispute over financing related to the construction of 50 residential apartments in a southern Sydney suburb.