A class action over alleged botched cosmetic surgeries can drop claims against one surgeon, but the doctor will remain a party so other defendants can point the finger at him.
Western Australia and its public housing landlord have denied a class action’s allegations that Indigenous people living in remote communities were overcharged for substandard public housing.
On the first day of trial in the Tax Office’s case against a former EY partner accused of marketing a tax loss access scheme and pocketing $700,000 in the process, the court heard former clients were assured the scheme was “risky but not illegal”.
Tamworth Regional Council has won its bid to be joined to an environmental group’s appeal of the approval for the controversial Hills of Gold wind farm.
VCAT has granted a planning permit to a developer whose eight-storey residential development in Fiztroy was opposed by the local council over concerns about sunlight.
A Federal Court judge might be called as a witness in accused war criminal Ben Roberts-Smith’s bid for a retrial in his failed defamation case against Nine.
A former Cushman & Wakefield managing director has sued the commercial real estate broker, alleging he was unfairly terminated to prevent him from keeping a $1.5 million sign-on bonus.
A judge has thrown out Clive Palmer’s lawsuits against former Australian Securities and Investments Commission chair James Shipton after finding the claims had no reasonable prospects of success.
Class actions against Hyundai and Kia over alleged defective anti-lock braking systems could expand “dramatically”, a court has heard, as a contest over competing cases ticks over into a second year.
Gaming company Light & Wonder is facing a possible shareholder class action for allegedly misleading investors about the growth of its Dragon Train game, which Aristocrat claims its rival developed by misappropriating its trade secrets. Class action firm Phi Finney McDonald announced it is investigating a class action on behalf of investors who purchased Light…