The Victorian Supreme Court will push ahead with a hearing for a group costs order in a class action by Arrium shareholders despite requests by the applicants that it be put off until after judgment is issued on the second-ever group costs order request.
A court has dismissed challenges to the New South Wales public health orders that made it mandatory for certain workers to be vaccinated against COVID-19, declaring they did not breach workersâ rights to bodily integrity.
Five enforcement officers of the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission will be cross-examined by lawyers for banks facing price fixing charges over their conduct following ANZ’s $2.5 billion capital raising six years ago.
A judge overseeing a cartel case over a $2.5 billion ANZ share placement has granted ANZ’s bid for unredacted documents which the bank says will support its claims that the case should be permanently stayed because of improper dealings between whistleblower JPMorgan, ASIC and the ACCC.
Two shareholders of failed steel giant Arrium have told the High Court that granting their bid to grill former directors of the company would not be an abuse of process because it was in the public interest to âexposeâ the management of the defunct business.
The New South Wales government has accused anti-vaccination advocates of having a âmisguidedâ and âone-dimensional focusâ on the fundamental rights of the individual over those of a community contending with the highly-contagious Delta variant of COVID-19.Â
Individuals challenging public health orders mandating COVID-19 vaccinations for certain workers in New South Wales have told a court âthe line was crossedâ when the state government threatened their livelihoods.
Health experts have told a court hearing a challenge to a requirement that certain workers get the COVID-19 jab that vaccinations are an effective tool in the fight against the coronavirus, despite the global surge of âbreakthroughâ infections caused by the outbreak of the highly-infectious Delta strain.
Thousands of emails have inundated the inbox of the judge overseeing legal challenges to the NSW health ministerâs orders mandating COVID-19 vaccinations for certain workers, prompting a public warning against interfering with the administration of justice.
A judge has set aside a subpoena that allegedly sought to âembarrass the New South Wales governmentâ, in lawsuits contesting compulsory COVID-19 vaccination orders made by state health minister Brad Hazzard.