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Continental Coal ex-director Peter Landau gets jail time for stealing
Energy & Natural Resources 2023-12-12 11:43 pm By Cat Fredenburgh

A former director of failed Perth mining company Continental Coal has been jailed for more than three and a half years after pleading guilty to multiple crimes, including stealing $2.2 million and forging a bank statement.

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Federal agency faces landmark lawsuit over environmental reporting
Environment 2023-12-12 10:50 pm By Cindy Cameronne

A government entity that subsidises fossil fuel projects is facing a novel lawsuit alleging it failed to disclose the full environmental and climate impacts of its activities. 

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Firm’s ‘ridiculously low’ fee budget in Westpac class action drives down funder’s cut
Class Actions 2023-12-11 11:22 am By Christine Caulfield

A judge’s decision to chop $810,000 from the funder’s cut of a settled class action against Westpac sounds a warning to class action litigators that when it comes to determining the size of a commission, case budgets matter.

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Class action launched over JB Hi-Fi’s ‘worthless’ extended warranties
Class Actions 2023-12-11 9:18 am By Christine Caulfield

Electronics retailer JB Hi-Fi has been hit with a landmark class action alleging it sold worthless extended warranties to customers for over a decade.

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‘I could not have consented’: Brittany Higgins allegedly told colleague
Trials 2023-12-11 11:37 am By Cindy Cameronne

Former Liberal staffer Brittany Higgins told a colleague she “could not have consented” to a sexual encounter with Bruce Lehrmann in Parliament House, a court has heard.

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Controversial lip reading expert must fly to Australia for Lehrmann trial
Defamation 2023-12-11 10:05 pm By Cindy Cameronne

A lip reading expert who has examined CCTV footage of Bruce Lehrmann and Brittany Higgins on the night of her alleged rape at Parliament House must give evidence in person, with a judge saying if the expert needs an interpreter for cross-examination it could affect the weight given to his evidence. Lehrmann is suing Network…

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Kerry Stokes to pay costs of Ben Roberts-Smith’s failed defamation case
Defamation 2023-12-11 10:03 pm By Cat Fredenburgh

Seven West Media chair Kerry Stokes has agreed to pay the costs of Ben Roberts-Smith’s failed defamation case, sparing the billionaire from producing thousands of emails exchanged with Roberts-Smith’s solicitors about the case. The Stokes-owned Australian Capital Equity has acquiesced to a third-party costs order sought by Nine-owned Fairfax, according to a Federal Court order…

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Nestle, a2 Milk reach settlement in trade mark feud
Intellectual Property 2023-12-11 3:12 pm By Christine Caulfield

Swiss food and drink giant Nestle has resolved a lawsuit by a2 Milk over a trade mark for infant formula, agreeing to withdraw an application with IP Australia to register the mark, NAN A2.

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Inquiry into judge a ‘flagrant interference’ by executive, group says
Legal Ethics 2023-12-08 10:31 pm By Cindy Cameronne

The peak body for Australian judges has condemned an inquiry into a Supreme Court Justice reportedly charged with assault, saying that it will have sweeping powers that interfere with the judiciary’s independence and violate “basic notions of fairness”.

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Judge allows controversial lip reader’s report in Lehrmann trial
Defamation 2023-12-08 11:17 pm By Sam Matthews

The judge overseeing Bruce Lehrmann’s defamation case against Network Ten has allowed the broadcaster to rely on an expert report from a lip reader who interpreted CCTV footage of Lehrmann and Brittany Higgins on the night of her alleged rape in Parliament House.

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