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Global insurer Jardine Lloyd Thompson could be hit with a class action over allegations that local councils across Australia paid excessive premiums for its advice.
Consumer goods maker Pental Ltd will pay $700,000 in penalties after admitting it misled customers about its 'flushable' White King toilet and bathroom cleaner wipes.
A former treasurer for Coffs Harbour City Council was "careless" for not analysing the financial products he invested millions of dollars of the city's funds into, a lawyer for ANZ said last week at a class action trial against the bank and US ratings agency S&P Global.
In a long-running intellectual property fight with the University of Sydney, an expert witness for ophthalmic diagnostic device maker ObjectiVision has been grilled in the witness box over a report that claims parts of the company's AccuMap system was copied.
A barrister for actor Geoffrey Rush has accused Nationwide News of wanting to change its defence purely to gain access to Sydney Theatre Company documents blocked by an earlier judgment.
Qantas has struck out a second time in a week in a bid to have an outside lawyer represent it in proceedings before the Fair Work Commission, with a commissioner saying Thursday the airline was "more than capable" of representing itself.
Federal Court Justice Michael Lee has again weighed in on the use of cost consultants to assess legal fees in class actions, saying that they should be "consigned to the dustbin of procedural history."
The Turnbull government will continue to pursue legislation that would have blocked the merger of the Construction, Forestry and Energy Union with two other unions by submitting the amalgamation to a public interests test.
Nationwide News has moved to appeal after a ruling in a closely-watched defamation case by actor Geoffrey Rush that struck down one of Nationwide's key defences.
Blue Sky Alternative Investments has asked Australia's corporate watchdog to investigate US hedge fund Glaucus for market manipulation, after a scathing report by the fund last week sent Blue Sky's stock into a tailspin and raised the prospect of a shareholder lawsuit.