TheĀ Construction, Forestry, Mining, and Energy Union has been hit with a record $1 million fine for secondary boycotts at construction sites around Melbourne, a big win for Australia’s consumer regulator in its five-year legal battle with the union.
A Federal Court judge may rule as early as Friday on whether Volkswagen should be required to answer questions about alleged emissions defeat device software installed in more than 90,000 cars in Australia before the first trial kicks off next month.
A Federal Court judge has ordered that newspaper articles that the president of the Australian Imams Council, Sheikh Shady Alsuleiman, claims are defamatory of him be removed from several News Corp. websites.
Vodafone will have to cough up $295,000 to cover the legal bills of the ACCC and Telstra after falling short in its bid for judicial review of an ACCC decision not to declare a domestic mobile roaming service.
A federal court judge has found that a bovine gene patent held by Cargill Inc. is invalid, but said the American agriculture giant could beef up the patent claims in response to his ruling.
Five automakers have reportedly now been sued by law firm Quinn Emanuel over defective Takata airbags.
Optus has been sued for allegedly pressuring customers to move to the National Broadband Network before they needed to make the switch.
The Australian Competition Tribunal has for a second time signed off on Tabcorp’s $11 billion merger with lotto giant Tatts, a deal the competition regulator fought hard to stop.
BrisConnections’ receiver PPB Advisory has settled its $2.2 billion lawsuit against engineering consultant Arup, a court was told Monday.
Toyota has become the first car manufacturer to be hit with a class action in Australia over faulty Takata airbags, Quinn Emanuel said Monday, and six other automakers are next.