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Logistics company GetSwift and its directors have dropped their challenge to a judgment that found the company breached its continuous disclosure obligations with its "PR-driven" approach to ASX statements.
A judge has ordered an unnamed funder to give $415,000 in security for the NSW government’s legal costs in a class action alleging it fraudulently acquired land for the construction of the WestConnex tunnel and caused loss and damage to 3,000 land holders.
Ben Roberts-Smith, who is suing Fairfax for defamation, has lost an appeal of a judge’s decision refusing cross-examination of his ex-wife over allegations she accessed his private emails.
Mosaic Brands has lost its appeal of a ruling ordering it to comply with a request for documents from the Australian Communications and Media Authority over alleged violations of the Spam Act.
Two of the world's largest manufacturers of explosives have taken their fight over three patents for a detonation device to the Federal Court.
A proposed consolidation of two class actions against collapsed wealth manager Dixon Advisory has hit a snag, with Shine Lawyers wanting to ensure group members who have signed up for its no win, no fee proceeding don't get stuck paying the commission of the funder backing its rival's case.
A judge overseeing two franchisee class actions against 7-Eleven that settled for $98 million has been urged to cut the payout to the law firm running the cases because it had a “troubling” practice of deferring its fees.
A fight over the venue for a class action against KPMG by investors in the collapsed mining company Arrium has been taken to the High Court, and at the centre of the battle is a contingency fee order made in the case.
Fleet management company Orix Australia has struck out in its bid to access certain files in an abandoned criminal case against two former senior executives as it seeks to claw back what it claims are losses suffered as a result of their breaches of duty.
An anti-lockdown protestor's application to have the High Court hear a challenge to the dismissal of her lawsuit over Victoria's stay-at-home orders has been rejected, with the justices saying the case should be heard by the state's Court of Appeal.