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Qube takes $70M SOPA spat with Martinus Rail to High Court
Transportation & Infrastructure 2025-04-30 11:52 pm By Christine Caulfield

Logistics company Qube wants the High Court to clarify the scope of an adjudicator’s role in determining a contractor’s payment claims under the SOP Act.

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Judge’s recusal from ASIC case against Sunshine Loans at heart of High Court appeal
Appeals 2025-04-24 11:03 pm By Christine Caulfield

Sunshine Loans wants the High Court to weigh in on an appeals court’s decision that overturned the recusal of a judge from deciding the penalty in ASIC’s case over unauthorised fees.

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Complaint against former judge doesn’t hold up, investigation finds
Courts 2025-04-24 11:40 pm By Christine Caulfield

A complaint by a former staff member against a former Federal Court judge was unsubstantiated, an independent investigation has found.

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Amcor takes long-running remediation fight with Glenvill to High Court
Appeals 2025-04-24 11:09 pm By Cat Fredenburgh

The High Court has been asked to weigh in on when a court should step in when the machinery governing the entitlement to payments in a contract breaks down, in a dispute between luxury home builder Glenvill and Amcor over asbestos remediation at an industrial site in the Melbourne suburb of Alphington.

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Suspect in online courts portal breach charged by NSW police
Privacy & Cybersecurity 2025-04-23 11:31 pm By Christine Caulfield

Cybercrime detectives have arrested a suspect in their probe of a major data breach of the NSW online court system that exposed thousands of sensitive files.

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Green Critical Minerals in deal to develop graphite for data centres
Technology 2025-04-23 11:29 pm By Sam Matthews

Green Critical Minerals has signed a deal with Australian data centre operator GreenSquareDC to develop heat management products with VHD graphite.

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A ‘maddening morass’: Court strikes out COVID-19 vaccine class action
Class Actions 2025-04-15 11:52 pm By Julia Kanapathippillai

A judge has struck out an “incoherent” COVID-19 vaccine-related class action, saying someone could go “mad” trying to understand the pleadings in the case.

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Clorox hit with $8.25M penalty for greenwashing
Greenwashing 2025-04-14 1:48 pm By Cat Fredenburgh

Clorox has been hit with a $8.25 million penalty for representing to consumers that certain GLAD garbage bags were sourced from plastic fished from the ocean.

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High Court to hear designer’s trade mark fight with Katy Perry
Intellectual Property 2025-04-11 11:36 pm By Cat Fredenburgh

The High Court has agreed to hear an Australian fashion designer’s appeal in a long-running trade mark dispute with pop star Katy Perry.

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High Court won’t take up Gunns creditor’s fight with liquidators
Restructuring & Insolvency 2025-04-10 11:20 am By Cat Fredenburgh

The High Court won’t hear an appeal by a creditor of collapsed forestry giant Gunns Plantations seeking to toss winding up proceedings brought after it failed to pay back $1.2 million in unfair preferences. 

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