Judges

A court has ordered Macquarie Securities to pay an agreed $35 million penalty after finding that “serious deficiencies" in its reporting systems resulted in repeated failures to accurately report short sales.

Victoria will pay $125 million in a settement finalised on Monday in a class action over the state's COVID-19 hotel quarantine program.

The operator of Sydney's InterContinental Hotel, which is challenging approval of a development in Macquarie Street, can't rely in its case on an engineering report showing the alleged threat to the structural integrity of a hotel driveway.

Racing NSW is planning to appeal a ruling that found its appointment of an administrator to the owner of Sydney's Randwick Racecourse over financial concerns was invalid, saying the court's decision puts it in a "precarious" position.

Three Sydney residents have appealed a ruling that gutted their suit against the city of Sydney and Transport for New South Wales alleging that a new cycleway on Oxford Street is discriminatory.

A judge has struck out a crypto company's injurious falsehood case against the Sydney Morning Herald's publisher after finding its statement of claim did not plead a cause of action.

Real estate data company BCI has slammed US analytics company CoreLogic’s "desperate" objection to a second data set in their data scraping fight, saying it's an attempt to cut off one mode of proving loss. 

A judge has refused to order a competitive tender process for the administration of a $549 million settlement in a class action over the Morrison government’s Robodebt scheme, while also questioning the funder’s bid for a $71 million commission.

A member of a wealthy shipping dynasty and former INXS manager Maria-Christina Perez de la Sala must go back to the drawing board in her case staking a claim to her father’s estate, after a court struck out most of her case. 

A judge has approved a settlement with KPMG in a shareholder class action over the collapse of mining company CuDeco, as well as a distribution scheme that will see payments to the funder but not group members.