Former SAS soldier Ben Roberts-Smith is fighting to shield medical records Fairfax says should be made public to âsafeguard open justiceâ, as trial in his defamation case against the publisher faces further delay due to COVID-19 border restrictions.
A judge has spoken of his personal challenge as an âolder, white maleâ in deciding the objective meaning of racism in Nine Network sports reporter Erin Molanâs defamation case, and said the matter would have been worthy of a trial by jury.
The Australian Securities and Investments Commission says beleaguered investment group Mayfair 101 should pay a $12 million penalty after a judge found the company misled investors about its financial products.
The founder of embattled investment group Mayfair 101, James Mawhinney, has said he received legal advice approving the companyâs advertising of financial products that a court has found misled investors.
While acknowledging it was a âloadedâ word, a judge has rejected a bid by the federal government to edit out the word ‘stolen’ from a notice to members of the third stolen wages class action brought by Shine Lawyers.
Personal lender ClearLoans has lost its bid to strike out claims in ASICâs first case related to the COVID-19 pandemic after a judge found the regulatorâs action, which accuses the lender of breaching the hardship provisions of the credit laws, was âsufficiently clearâ.
A judge hearing a price-fixing case against steel giant BlueScope has overruled an objection to the ACCCs barrister’s allegedly excessive “eye-rolling” and “scathing and sarcastic” manner during a cross-examination in which the company’s general manager was accused of lying under oath.
Pharmaceutical giants Merck Sharpe & Dohme and Pfizer have resolved a long-running intellectual property dispute over a 2015 patent owned by Pfizer for a pneumococcal vaccine.
US singer Katy Perry can withdraw an admission in a trade mark infringement case that licensing her brand to Target and Myer constituted use, with a judge finding the admission was ânot consistent with current lawâ.
A Victoria Supreme Court judge will hear the second ever application for a group costs order in a shareholder class action against G8 Education, saying she hoped to deal with the bid in a âstraightforward wayâ.