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The High Court has reinstated a $435,000 judgment awarded to a former lawyer who suffered post-traumatic stress disorder while working for the Special Sexual Offences unit in Victoria's Office of Public Prosecutions.
Engineering firm CIMIC has agreed to pay $492 million to settle a long-running dispute with JKC Australia over construction for the $45 billion Ichthys LNG project in the Northern Territory.
King & Wood Mallesons could be dragged into a class action by commercial fishing operators against Gladstone Ports Corporation over a "colossal disclosure debacle" in which the late discovery of 39,000 documents derailed a planned September hearing.
Nine has hit back at a class action by Indigenous Australians who say the broadcaster’s coverage of a $30 million class action settlement with the Queensland government for alleged police misconduct during the 2004 Palm Island riots was discriminatory and inaccurate, saying it reported the events “fairly and accurately”.
The High Court has ordered a sports association to pay $6.75 million to a woman who suffered a serious spinal injury after falling during a campdrafting competition in Ellerston, New South Wales, overturning an appeals court decision that cleared the association of negligence.
The Australian Grand Prix Corporation has been sued by a UK entertainment company alleging the COVID-19 related cancellation of the 2020 Melbourne Formula One led to $8.7 million in losses after a related a concert featuring superstar Robbie Williams was also scrapped.
The senior counsel for Deutsche Bank in its sucessful defence against the ACCC's landmark cartel case is one of three new judicial appointments in NSW.
Barristers have cautioned against a one-size-fits-all approach amid calls for a return to chambers and 'business as usual' in the New South Wales courts.
A court has heard that Cricket Tasmania may call former Australian test captain Tim Paine to give evidence in the witness box at a trial in a sexual harassament case by former receptionist Renee Ferguson against cricket players and senior managers.
The plaintiff in a class action against Volkswagen over allegedly deadly Takata airbags has told an appeals court his case was misunderstood by the trial judge, who found he failed to prove that cars fitted with the airbags were not of acceptable quality.