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The Northern Territory government has hit back at a class action over allegedly underresourced and discriminatory healthcare services in the Indigenous community of Wadeye, saying it cannot be sued over its funding decisions.
A law firm that ran two class actions over the St Patrick's Day bushfires has lost a bid to have group members foot the bill for $50,000 in adverse costs, with a judge saying there was "no basis" for the request.
Bayer says the patents office was wrong to quash an extension for its patent covering an oral contraceptive on the grounds that its application should have been based on a drug with an earlier approval date.
Tokio Marine subsidiary Bond & Credit Company and fired underwriter Greg Brereton have been pulled into lawsuits targeting Insurance Australia Group over trade credit policies covering $4.6 billion in loans issued by the now collapsed Greensill Capital.
Labour hire firm CoreStaff will pay $6.4 million to settle a class action accusing it of using the promise of long-term work to lure workers to Australia from Papua New Guinea, only to terminate their employment agreements less than three years after they made the move.
A Sydney barrister has launched a defamation lawsuit against the Nine Network over its coverage of a battle for custody of famed social media hound Oscar the cavoodle.
Legal bills sent to investment firm Keybridge Capital for work related to litigation from 2019 are governed by legislation that doesn't require cost disclosures to sophisticated clients and can't be reviewed, a court has heard.
Grain producer Viterra, which has been ordered to pay $293 million to Cargill Australia for making misleading representations during the sale of malt producer Joe White, rejected an offer to settle the lawsuit for $85 million, a court has heard.
Administrators for building giant ProBuild have won more time to examine its assets as they try to avoid the "nightmarish prospect" of costly delays to the company's projects.
The WA Supreme Court has thrown out challenges to Woodside Energy's proposals to expand its Scarborough LNG project, finding there were no errors in the state EPA's approval.