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Former West Coast Eagles player Daniel Venables' case against two doctors and a neurologist has been struck out, with a judge finding he had failed to adequately plead a negligence case.

Fashion retailer City Beach has lost an appeal of a $14 million penalty secured by the consumer regulator in the first enforcement action for breaches of button battery safety standards.

Pizza chain Domino's has confirmed that it will appeal a judge's finding that it misled franchisees on the pay its workers were entitled to, leaving them shortchanged.

A judge has rejected Domino's bid for a 30 per cent reduction in the costs it owes after losing an underpayments class action, saying the pizza chain will likely be on the hook for around $10 million in costs.

After waiting three-and-a-half years for judgment and winning on “close to everything”, a class action against Domino’s over staff wages is "very likely" to face an appeal, with retiring Justice Bernard Murphy vowing to make final orders and not hand the "mess" over to another judge.

Domino's Pizza has been found to have engaged in misleading or deceptive conduct in representations about staff wages to its Australian franchisees, in a class action judgment three and a half years in the making.

Software company Dubber has failed in a bid to stay its case against BDO Audit pending the outcome of ASIC's action against the auditor, with a judge ordering discovery to proceed before the litigation is put on ice.

Seyfarth Shaw has hired DLA Piper's former head of labor and employment in Australia to join its team in Sydney.

The Supreme Court of Victoria has agreed to transfer a case against the former CEO of ASX-listed software company Dubber and its solicitor to the Federal Court, to be heard alongside a case against auditor BDO and civil penalty proceedings by ASIC.

Shell is seeking to recover $83 million from former joint venture partners Woodside and Paladin after the Commonwealth imposed a levy to cover the cost of decommissioning an abandoned offshore oil platform off the coast of Darwin.