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An appeals court has rejected a Sydney solicitor’s challenge to a finding that he engaged in unsatisfactory professional conduct after he inaccurately recounted a judge’s comments in a letter to a costs assessor.

Roblox has agreed to take additional steps to protect children from online grooming and exploitation on its platform, following concerns raised by the eSafety Commissioner.

EY has claimed a provision of the tax law prevents it from handing over the client file of a property developer who alleges a former partner breached fiduciary duties, but the developer says there is no reason to withhold the documents.

Mardathoonera woman Raelene Cooper has taken Chevron and offshore petroleum regulator NOPSEMA to court over environmental approvals for a project for maintaining gas production from its Gorgon LNG project in Western Australia.

The competition regulator has executed a search warrant on software firm WiseTech Global as part of an investigation into alleged competition law breaches, the company said Wednesday.

The Australian Energy Regulator must repay AGL a $25 million penalty secured by the watchdog in a Federal Court case, after the power company prevailed on appeal.

Collapsed steelmaker Arrium's former chief executive has testified during a shareholder class action trial that a five-year business plan projecting a 'V-shaped' turnaround was not an unrealistic pipe dream.

Facing cross-examination in a shareholder class action over Nuix's allegedly misleading IPO prospectus, a senior Macquarie executive has testified that he was comforted by two US law firms' finding that there was nothing untrue in the document. 

A class action over Victoria's hotel quarantine debacle that settled for $125 million will seek a record $37.5 million cut for law firm Quinn Emanuel and $250,000 payment for the lead applicant, which was subjected to "public ridicule and hatred" during the matter.

The Victorian government has told the High Court it had no obligation to act with procedural fairness when it decided to demolish inner-city public housing towers in Melbourne, as it fights a class action’s appeal.