A judge has rejected a request to discontinue a class action on behalf of investors in failed music streaming platform Guvera, saying it was âdifficult to understandâ why the applicants had launched the case as a class action in the first place.
Queensland crane company NQCranes has lost its bid to strike out the bulk of the ACCCâs amended case alleging it engaged in a conspiracy with a multinational rival to divide the Brisbane and Newcastle markets.
IVF provider Virtus Health would be âthe author of its own fateâ if its proposed acquisition of rival Adora Fertility flopped, a judge has said in hearing the ACCCâs bid for a temporary injunction blocking completion of the planned purchase.
The federal government has shot down a Labor push for the privileges committee to examine former Attorney-General Christian Porter after he refused to reveal information about an anonymous donor that covered a portion of his costs in defamation proceedings against the ABC.
A judge has adjourned trial in the defamation case by accused war criminal Ben Roberts-Smith to early 2022, saying relocation was not practical after COVID-19 restrictions prevented Fairfaxâs witnesses travelling to Sydney.
ACCC chair Rod Sims has spoken out about the move by IVF provider Virtus to complete its planned acquisition of rival Adora before clearance from the watchdog, saying the situation showed the need for merger review reform.
The High Court has thrown out sacked climate skeptic professor Peter Ridd’s appeal of his dismissal by James Cook University, finding protection of intellectual freedom is not a âgeneral freedom of speechâ.
A class action over a public housing lockdown during Melbourne’s second COVID-19 wave in July last year is seeking to discontinue battery and negligence claims against the Victorian government, a court has heard.
Danish drug maker Lundbeck has told the High Court it did not contract away a royalty-free licence to generic drug maker Sandoz to sell blockbuster antidepressant Lexapro, saying such a decision would be commercial âmadnessâ.
AMP and a number of its financial planning subsidiaries could face 1.2 million individual claims if they win a bid to declass a group proceeding over allegedly excessive insurance premiums, a judge has said.