Judgment

A long-running class action by Royal Australian Navy technicians alleging the Department of Defence broke a promise to train them in engineering has lost its challenge to referees' methods for assessing group members' loss.

A judge has said that she is “scandalised” by Clarke Energy’s $10 million legal bill in a dispute with Alinta Energy over the construction of a gas-fired power station.

Accor Hotels has won its bid to strike out a case by the strata company for a building in Dunsborough, Western Australia that houses its Pullman Bunker Bay resort, with a registrar saying it failed to plead how it allegedly mistakenly paid $2.2 million in invoices over five years.

Engineering firm Monadelphous has lost its bid to peek at BHP's legal bills in a fight over who should foot the bill for defending a suit by a worker over alleged exposure to dust and water at the Macedon gas project in Western Australia. 

The Indian government has failed to block a trade mark that includes the Bengali word for 'basmati', with an IP Australia delegate saying Australian shoppers would understand 'basmati' to be a type of rice not connected to a particular region. 

Free TV, the peak body for commercial TV broadcasters including Seven and Nine, has lost its bid for a $2.5 million licence fee to use copyright sound recordings owned by collecting society Phonographic Performance Company of Australia.

The eSafety Commissioner has won suppression order over witness names in its lawsuit against messaging platform Telegram over alleged pro-terror content, after expressing concerns they could be exposed to doxing.

The High Court has found the Victorian Supreme Court has jurisdiction to hear a dispute between the planning minister Sonya Kilkenny and supermarket chain IGA about a proposed amendment to a council's by-laws, despite the absence of an approval decision.

Law firm DWF Australia will face a negligence claim over an alleged failure to join other parties to a claim over a damaged pipeline, after failing to secure a summary dismissal of the matter.

The High Court has ruled that abattoir Game Meats Company is not entitled to a constructive trust in the copyright over video footage obtained by animal activists while trespassing in a Victorian slaughterhouse.