The Victorian government has not decided how it will respond to a constitutional challenge brought in the High Court against the state’s COVID-19 lockdown measures, and has been given just four more days to make its move.
Over-the-counter derivative issuers AGM Markets, OT Markets and Oxifin Tech have been ordered to pay a total of $75 million in penalties after a ruling that they engaged in unconscionable conduct causing losses of over $30 million to unsophisticated investors seeking what a judge called “financial heroin hits”.
The chief judge of the Federal Court has told Chubb Insurance to consider whether it wants to be held responsible for the commercial viability of Evolution Precast Systems, which has been denied coverage over the ill-fated Opal Tower and faces myriad legal claims.
The Daily Mail’s concerted campaign against Erin Molan was a set-up that damaged her reputation and sparked a public “firestorm” against the Nine sports reporter, the Federal Court has heard.
The litigation funder embroiled in a contractual dispute with a lead applicant in a class action against S&P Global is a stranger to the proceeding and has no right to demand to be served an application to pause the case pending the outcome of the contract spat, a judge has said.
A judge has agreed to consolidate two shareholder class actions against Treasury Wine Estates over an earnings downgrade in January and will let two law firms jointly run the case, over the winemaker’s objections.
ABC journalist Dan Oakes will not face charges for using leaked classified information in his reporting on alleged war crimes in Afghanistan by Australian special forces.
Lawyer Alex Elliott can’t refuse to hand over evidence in the Banksia class action on the grounds of privilege against self incrimination or exposure to penalty because he waived privilege when he produced the documents to lawyers for his late father’s funder, a court has been told.
Pharmaceutical rivals Merck Sharp & Dohme and Pfizer have both suffered a blow in their efforts to patent a better pneumococcal vaccine, with a judge upholding both infringement and invalidity claims in the long-running case over the blockbuster Prevnar 13 vaccine.
The High Court has declined to review $280,000 in damages awarded to a lawyer, after an appeals court found a Today Tonight segment labelling her a “Centrelink cheat” was defamatory.
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