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A victim of the 2014 Parkerville bushfire can't withdraw acceptance of a settlement offer from Western Power in light of PTSD symptoms which he said affected his judgment.

Spanish infrastructure giant Acciona has lost its bid to transfer a dispute over a $511 million waste-to-energy facility in East Rockingham, with a judge finding no overlap with another matter in the Federal Court. 

Home retailer Bed Bath N’ Table has asked the High Court to reverse a Full Court judgment that found retailer House did not engage in misleading and deceptive conduct in setting up its Bed & Bath stores.

A former Dentons property partner claims he lost the opportunity for promotion when he was forced to resign, but the firm argues his own misconduct put paid to his prospects of joining the equity ranks.

Bird & Bird has hired DLA Piper technology and data protection partner Nicholas Boyle to join the firm's Sydney office.

ASIC has attacked an appeal argument by payday lenders BSF Solutions and Cigno that athough they offered short-term loans, the fees they charged had no link to the credit services.

Australian Clinical Labs may seek to strike out part of the OAIC's case over a 2022 data breach, arguing it would unfairly allow the watchdog to allege both single and multiple contraventions of privacy law.

A "time poor" judge's extensive copying and pasting of submissions and an offensive tweet by senator Pauline Hanson were at the centre of the week's biggest litigation wins.

In a loss for Bed Bath N' Table, the Full Court has overturned a finding that homewares retailer House engaged in misleading and deceptive conduct by setting up its 'Bed & Bath' stores.

ASIC claims non-bank lender Oak Capital engaged in unconscionable conduct by deliberating employing a business model to skirt the National Credit Code when issuing $37 million in loans.