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A judge has refused a bid by the ACT Police Chief to intervene on behalf of the AFP in Shane Drumgold SC legal challenge to the findings of an inquiry into the prosecution of Brittany Higgins' assault claims against Bruce Lehrmann, but has allowed six police officers to be joined to defend the findings.
The applicant in a nine-year-old class action over the government's 2011 live exports ban has urged the Commonwealth to pay up to $900 million to settle the case, after earlier settlement efforts flopped.
The state of Queensland has urged the High Court to step in after a Federal Circuit and Family Court judge was held personally liable for a man's false imprisonment.
A leading class action firm may seek compensation for those who were illegally detained after the High Court ruled that Australia's system of holding individuals indefinitely in immigration detention is unlawful.
A judge has approved the first settlement in dozens of negligence cases against the Minister for Home Affairs on behalf of refugees detained by the Australian government on the island of Nauru.
A human rights group has lost its legal bid to compel the federal government to bring home Australians stuck in Syrian camps, with a a judge finding the Minister for Home Affairs has “no control” over their detention.
A man awarded $300,000 after he was unlawfully imprisoned for contempt has won his legal costs from the judge who jailed him. But a court has rejected his bid to recoup the costs paid to a damages expert in his case, finding he gave her “incomplete, inaccurate and unreliable” instructions.
An advocacy group has appealed a judgment that found it was "legally open" to federal environment minister Tanya Plibersek to approve the extension of two mega coal mines in New South Wales.
A judge’s appeal of a decision that found he unlawfully imprisoned a man for contempt and was liable for over $300,000 in damages may go straight to the High Court and should be heard before a similar suit by another man jailed by the judge, a court has heard.
A judge has rejected a bid by WA businessman and former Perth Glory owner Antony Sage to uncover external legal advice provided to the tax office in a dispute over an audit that went to the AAT, finding that reliance by the Tribunal on the material could endanger its independence.