Tabcorp-owned Tatts Group has appealed a finding from the Commissioner of Taxation that it cannot deduct a $120 million lotto licence from it assessable income for the 2017 financial year.
An appeals court has set aside the fraud and insolvent trading conviction of Andrew Young, founder of defunct whitegoods distributor Kleenmaid, and ordered a retrial after finding a jury should have determined whether he was mentally fit to stand trial.
Christian Porter and silk Sue Chrysanthou have been ordered to foot the legal bill of a friend of the woman who accused Porter of rape, after she succeeded in having the barrister removed from defamation proceedings the former attorney-general brought against the ABC.
Former PricewaterhouseCoopers director Jennifer Whittaker has resolved her lawsuit with the accounting giant on the eve of trial, leaving questions about the validity of termination notices by DocuSign for a future case.
A class action has been filed against the federal government on behalf of First Nations people in the Northern Territory who were allegedly denied wages owed for work performed over a nearly 40-year period.
A top intellectual property barrister who has worked on cutting-edge cases that raise novel questions about the patentability of inventions has been appointed to the Federal Court.
Volkswagen has asked the High Court to throw out a a landmark $125 million penalty over its emissions cheating scandal, the highest ever handed down in Australia for consumer law violations.
Boxing champion Mike Tyson has sued Australian streetwear company Culture Kings for allegedly selling ‘misleading’ T-shirts featuring his image.
The government’s proposed changes to the country’s continuous disclosure regime substitutes a “bright line legal test” with a “very very messy law” that will weaken enforcement and could undermine the integrity of Australia’s capital markets, a Senate committee has heard.
Criminal charges have been laid against the auditor of stockbroker Halifax Investment Services, whose 2008 collapse left around $200 million in client funds trapped, in the first criminal charges brought over auditing services in Australia.