Power and gas company Sumo has been ordered to pay a $10 million penalty for engaging in prohibited ‘door-to-door’ phone sales, the largest penalty for breaches of Victoriaâs energy laws.
A judge has questioned a contingency fee bid by Slater & Gordon in a class action against Insurance Australia, saying the risks of the case were inherent to almost every class action.
RAMS franchisees have called out the Westpac unit for âold school litigation,â as they seek information about alleged anomalies in home loan applications that led to the nixing of their franchise agreements.
An appeals court has found Transport for NSW was not empowered to compulsorily acquire land for the âpublic purposeâ of the Western Sydney Airport.Â
Hoping for a discounted penalty, fintech iSignthis has won its bid to adduce evidence of without prejudice offers it made to reach a resolution with ASIC before the regulator took it to court.
Ten has resolved a case by former journalist Tegan George that alleged the network’s Canberra bureau had a culture that was âsexually hostile, demeaning and oppressiveâ.
A competition class action against Stanwell and CS Energy has been tossed, with a judge finding the power companies’ conduct was legitimate âprofit maximisation behaviourâ.Â
Pauline Hanson’s argument that Greens senator Mehreen Faruqi should have brought her discrimination case in a cheaper jurisdiction has not persuaded the Federal Court.
The High Court has declined a request by Shinetec for it to weigh in a dispute over an abandoned $185 million development in Gosford, NSW.
Spanish infrastructure giant Acciona has lost its bid to transfer a dispute over a $511 million waste-to-energy facility in East Rockingham, with a judge finding no overlap with another matter in the Federal Court.Â