Christine Caulfield

A court has approved a $170 million settlement in a class action against Allianz, and has signed off on an order that gives the firms behind the case 25 per cent of the deal.

The High Court has refused special leave to Transport for NSW to weigh in on a dispute over the value of land acquired near the Western Sydney Airport.

The High Court has found builder J Hutchinson did not arrive at an anti-competitive understanding with the CFMEU to boycott a subcontractor merely by succumbing to the threat of industrial action.

ASX's management of operational risk that led to December's CHESS settlement outage has the corporate regulator and the Reserve Bank "increasingly concerned" and "deeply disappointed".

The corporate regulator has caned the super fund industry for its poor handling of death benefit claims it said had "devastating impacts" on members' grieving relatives.

Former directors of New Century have won a dispute over a due diligence report prepared by Gilbert + Tobin in their litigation centred on royalty payments from a zinc mine in north-west Queensland.

Cybercrime detectives are probing a major data breach of the NSW online court system, which exposed thousands of sensitive court files.

Property developer PDG has unveiled plans for a luxury tower to be built at the site of the Queens Bridge Hotel in Melbourne's Southbank.

The Albanese government will ban non-compete clauses in employment contracts for workers earning salaries under the high-income threshold, saying the clauses were dragging down wages.

A lawyer accused of trying to blackmail personal injury firm Maliganis Edwards Johnson has won a challenge to an injunction, with a judge finding the blackmail allegation was more nuanced than conveyed by the Canberra firm.