A patient who gave his plastic surgeon a one-star review for a nose job is challenging a judgment that put him on the hook for $50,000 in defamation damages.
A class action against Volkswagen over allegedly deadly Takata airbags has failed a second time after an appeals court found “a merely speculative” risk of rupture was not enough to find the vehicles unacceptable.
A class action is being prepared on behalf of women who claim to have suffered complications from Allergan breast implants linked to a rare form of cancer.
The consumer regulator has asked a judge to impose penalties of almost $10 million against Honda Australia for misleading the customers of two former authorised dealerships, a penalty up to 10 times what the car maker says it should pay.
A judge has order ACBF Funeral Plans to pay $1.2 million for misleading its First Nations customers, a penalty less than one-fifth the fine sought by ASIC.
A judge has found that the mere mention of the drug Viagra in the workplace does not constitute sexual harassment, in a lawsuit brought against retail chain Bing Lee.
EY has responded to a lawsuit by a former Asia Pacific director who claims she was fired after making complaints of bullying, harassment and discrimination.
Global law firm Jones Day has recruited two partners for its growing energy practice, including a former Ashurst partner.
On the first day of a seven-week trial, the applicant in a class action against Monsanto has taken aim at the agrochemical giant’s “same old approach” to undermining decades of evidence it says demonstrates the cancer-causing properties of popular weed killer Roundup.
A top orthopaedic surgeon and former NSW Australian of the year has argued in his defamation case against Nine that stories detailing his alleged negligence misled the public about medical issues and were the “opposite of public interest” journalism.