The leader of an abusive New Age cult operating out of northern NSW has lost her defamation case against a former follower who wrote a tell-all book about her experiences, after a judge found she was a âdishonest and unreliableâ witness.
A Melbourne lawyer has received a suspended sentence of 30 days imprisonment for âstubborn and wilful disobedienceâ of court orders, after he failed to share logins and passwords to his firm’s computer records with an auditor appointed by Victoria’s legal watchdog.
Optus has paid a $1.5 million penalty after an investigation by the Australian Communications and Media Authority revealed breaches of public safety rules.
An appeals court has ordered a third trial in a long-running copyright battle between Microsoft and a Melbourne computer retailer, saying the trial judge’s findings were “greatly diminished” by her three-year-long delay in delivering judgment.
Auto repair giant AMA Group has been hit with a lawsuit by a sales consultant who says she was sexually harassed by a manager to the point of a psychological breakdown and directed to attend work at an all-male wrecking yard after she complained about the harassment.
A judge has quashed the OAICâs decision to reject a second class action-style complaint filed over the massive Optus data breach, finding the Privacy Act does not bar second-in-time proceedings.Â
Online marketplace Redbubble has succeeded on appeal in cutting down the damages it owes to Hells Angels from over $78,000 to just $100, following a finding that it violated the motorcycle groupâs trade marks.
A judge has rejected Scenic Toursâ bid to declass a second class action brought by disappointed passengers on a series of European cruises and exclude international customers from the proceeding.
A former director of Melbourne-based developer Steller Developments has denied liquidatorsâ claims that he agreed to give a $120 million personal guarantee before the company went under, saying there was ânot one single contemporaneous documentâ referring to the alleged guarantee.Â
A judge has allowed Slater & Gordon to adjourn a fight about security for costs in a shareholder class action against Beach Energy until it has more favourable evidence of its debt financing position, over the energy companyâs objection to the âdoctrinally unprecedentedâ application.