Events

The Northern Territory has been hit with a class action over the alleged discriminatory treatment of Aboriginal Community Police Officers.

Magnamail has defeated an ACCC suit alleging it misled customers by representing they were eligible for major prizes if they ordered from its catalogues, with a judge finding the mail order company's representation that customers 'could' win major prizes was true.

Charlottes MacInnes has filed an appeal just one day after losing her case against Rebel Wilson that alleged Wilson made defamatory posts that “The Deb” star had retracted an harassment complaint. 

A potential issue has arisen in a shareholder class action against Light & Wonder over an employee's theft of rival Aristocrat's trade secrets, with the court hearing the gaming company's $190 million settlement with Aristocrat requires it to destroy documents that could be relevant to the case.

Real estate giant JLL is seeking access to chats between its former national head of commercial real estate and his lawyers to test his evidence that he contacted his solicitors 25 times over a two-month period. 

Metals Manufactures has launched legal action for $33 million in damages against Fletcher Building and unit Crane Group, saying it was misled into paying $170 million for plumbing supply business Tradelink.

A judge has questioned whether the game is worth the candle in a liquidator’s case against a Sydney law firm over allegedly excessive legal bills, saying the contest appeared “economically irrational” and “at one level, stupid”.

A judge is not too thrilled about the ACCC's bid for details of Microsoft's defence in a suit alleging the software giant duped millions of customers into upgrading to more expensive product plans, saying "it pains me the court has to take time" to hear the application.

A local council can't prevent owners at three residential apartments from building a seawall at The Entrance to guard against damage from coastal erosion, with a judge finding the visual impact was limited to when the beach was fully eroded. 

Italian builder Webuild has lost its bid to permanently stay a SafeWork NSW prosecution over an 2022 incident while tunnelling for the Snowy Hydro expansion that allegedly gave rise to a risk of death or serious injury to two workers.