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HESTA super fund says ATO overtaxed it by $11M
Tax 2025-08-14 11:28 pm By Andy Sidler

HESTA Super has complained that the tax office has unfairly stripped it of $11 million in franking credits, denying it did not hold the credits ‘at risk’ for the required 45-day period. 

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PepsiCo wins High Court fight with ATO over royalty withholding tax
Intellectual Property 2025-08-13 11:55 pm By Sam Matthews

In a major loss for the Australian Taxation Office, a High Court majority has found an agreement between US soft drink giant PepsiCo and Schweppes Australia to sell brands such as Pepsi and Mountain Dew in Australia was not subject to a royalty withholding tax.

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High Court to hear developer Mayfield’s appeal in case against NSW Ports
Appeals 2025-08-08 11:13 pm By Cat Fredenburgh

Mayfield Development has been granted the High Court’s leave to make its argument that derivative Crown immunity does not apply to NSW Ports, in a seven-year-old competition case. 

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Planning law doesn’t bar jurisdictional review bid to Supreme Court, judges say
Construction 2025-08-11 11:31 pm By Christine Caulfield

IGA can pursue its Victoria Supreme Court challenge to a decision allowing up to four supermarkets to operate in Shepparton, with an appeal bench finding the court can review planning decisions for jurisdictional error.

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High Court confirms employers must consider redeployment before redundancy
Employment 2025-08-06 11:27 pm By Andy Sidler

The High Court has upheld a decision that found Helensburgh Coal should have tried to redeploy 22 workers it dismissed as redundant and replaced with contractors.

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Live exports case set for more delays, as class action files appeal
Appeals 2025-08-05 11:41 pm By Cat Fredenburgh

The applicant in a long-running class action over the government’s live exports ban has lodged an appeal after a judge has found that no additional cattle would have been exported to Indonesia in 2012 and 2013 if the ban had not been in place.

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Attacked as untenable, Bupa class action faces potential summary dismissal bid
Class Actions 2025-08-04 11:31 pm By Christine Caulfield

A class action against aged care provider Bupa faced tough questions by a judge on Monday, who grilled counsel over the case’s theory of loss. And the answers — rather than reassuring her — raised the spectre of a summary judgment fight.

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Veolia wins draft conditions from EPA in fight over waste transfer station
Construction 2025-07-31 11:55 pm By Cindy Cameronne

A tribunal has ordered the EPA in Victoria to indicate what conditions it would impose on Veolia’s development application for a waste transfer station, which the regulator has opposed. 

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Court fines Webjet $9M for misleading air travelers about bookings
Competition & Consumer Protection 2025-07-28 11:34 pm By Cat Fredenburgh

A judge has signed off on a $9 million penalty against online flight bookings service Webjet for misleading air travelers about prices and bookings.

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Contempt bid against Nine’s in-house lawyers, journalists dismissed
Media 2025-07-18 11:16 am By Cindy Cameronne

A judge has tossed an application for a contempt hearing against in-house lawyers, editors and journalists at Nine who allegedly breached suppression orders in a former ABC radio host’s unfair dismissal case.

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