Appeals

Star's former chief legal offer has won a stay of a $400,000 penalty as she appeals a finding that she breached her directors' duties by failing to alert the company's board to money laundering risks in its Sydney casino.

The Australian Taxation Office is appealing a win for gold producer Evolution Mining after an initial trial over the company's purported decision to cancel the transfer of $31 million in post-acquisiton losses.

The High Court has declined to review a ruling from the Victorian Court of Appeal that found domestic building insurance policies do not respond to when a defect arises, but rather to when loss or damage is suffered.

Billionaire Clive Palmer has asked the High Court to revive his misconduct claims against former ASIC chair James Shipton, which the Full Court rejected as "little more than a house of cards".

A native title group has won an appeal to the High Court over a 30-year licence granted by the Northern Territory government to Fortune Agribusiness to extract groundwater for irrigation on its property.

Alliance Living has failed on appeal of a security for costs order in a dispute with a subcontractor on a project to restore Sydney's Gaden House, with NSW's top court saying the builder's failure to pay a judgment debt was relevant.

Seymour Whyte has failed to recover millions in asbestos remediation costs from insurer Liberty, with an appeals court finding the costs related to the presence of asbestos at the site of a Melbourne road project and not its release.

By the time Australia's emissions targets were set in 2015, the effects of climate change were already being felt in the Torres Strait, the Commonwealth has told an appeals court, saying a class action over Islanders' cultural loss can't prove causation.

People don't read terms and conditions when signing up to online services, an appeals court judge has told trading platform Plus500, which says the applicant in a class action is bound by an arbitration clause in its user contract.

The law of negligence should be expanded to recognise cultural loss as a compensable form of harm, a group of Torres Strait Islanders argue in challenging a ruling tossing their class action against the government.