New High Court Chief Justice Stephen Gageler was lauded by a group of legal luminaries at a swearing in ceremony, where he was described as the “unbackable favourite” for the country’s highest legal post and “the judge’s judge”.
The federal government has announced a review into a nationwide Optus outage that left millions of customers without coverage and affected triple zero calls.
A Sydney lawyer has been ordered to pay the costs of a property dispute after a judge found his conduct meant the case was “doomed to fail” and caused the costs of the litigation to be wasted.
The ACCC has raised concerns over Qantas’ alleged failure to respond to claims in a blockbuster case against the airline over the sale of tickets on cancelled flights.
The litigation funder that backed a class action brought on behalf of Indigenous workers seeking to recover unpaid wages wants a 20 per cent commission from the settlement. But it faces pushback from the government of Western Australia, which has agreed to pay group members up to $165 million.
The Chief Justice of South Australia has corrected JK Rowling’s “completely unfounded” fears about a new practice note relating to the use of preferred gender pronouns in the state’s courts, after the Harry Potter author took to Twitter to criticise it.
The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has filed its first-ever case over internal dispute resolution regulations, targeting Telstra Super over its handling of customer complaints.
The former Indian High Commissioner to Australia has been ordered to pay compensation to a woman who toiled in his Canberra home for less than $10 per day for over a year, with a judge finding he could not avail himself of diplomatic immunity to avoid liability.
Lawyers have spoken out against Treasury’s plan to implement a three-year moratorium on private litigation against companies that make misleading claims about their climate credentials, as the Albanese government proposes new climate disclosure requirements.
A franchisee class action against United Petroleum over the installation of allegedly loss-making Pie Face stores at its franchise sites has succeeded in fending off the petrol company’s bid for security, with a judge agreeing it would have a chilling effect on the unfunded case.