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Judge ‘abundantly satisfied’ strip search case against NSW should continue as class action
Class Actions 2023-12-19 2:44 pm By Cat Fredenburgh

A judge has found that a lawsuit against the state of NSW over hundreds of allegedly illegal strip searches conducted by NSW police at music festivals over a six-year period should move forward as a class action.

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Protecting journalist’s sources in the public interest, judge says in surgeon’s defamation case
Defamation 2023-12-19 11:33 am By Sam Matthews

A judge has rejected a top orthopaedic surgeon’s bid to uncover the names of 13 sources who gave information to a Nine journalist, preferring the public interest in protecting the sources’ identities and noting their fears of reprisals by the Sydney surgeon. 

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ACT Police Chief can’t intervene in Drumgold challenge to Higgins prosecution report
Public law 2023-12-19 3:08 pm By Sam Matthews

A judge has refused a bid by the ACT Police Chief to intervene on behalf of the AFP in Shane Drumgold SC legal challenge to the findings of an inquiry into the prosecution of Brittany Higgins’ assault claims against Bruce Lehrmann, but has allowed six police officers to be joined to defend the findings.

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Judge says Reynolds’ ex-chief of staff Fiona Brown can’t avoid giving evidence in Lehrmann trial
Defamation 2023-12-18 10:44 pm By Sam Matthews

The judge overseeing Bruce Lehrmann’s defamation trial against Ten and journalist Lisa Wilkinson has rejected a bid by the former chief of staff to then defence minister Linda Reynolds to avoid giving evidence on the basis of “harm it may cause to her health conditions”. 

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Reynolds’ former chief of staff denies Brittany Higgins disclosed alleged rape
Defamation 2023-12-18 11:41 pm By Cindy Cameronne

The former chief of staff for MP Linda Reynolds has denied that Brittany Higgins disclosed an alleged sexual assault to her in March 2019.

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MP says Higgins told him about alleged rape by Liberal staffer
Trials 2023-12-18 5:03 pm By Cat Fredenburgh

A Queensland MP known to Brittany Higgins has told a court that the former Liberal staffer told him that a  colleague had raped her, just days after she was allegedly assaulted by Bruce Lehrmann.

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Funders’ cut, legal fees to eat up half of $40M RCR Tomlinson class action settlement
Class Actions 2024-01-09 11:56 pm By Christine Caulfield

The funders that bankrolled a securities class action against collapsed engineering firm RCR Tomlinson will ask the court to give them an $8 million cut of a $40 million settlement. A further $12 million in legal fees means shareholders will get 50 per cent of the settlement sum.

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Lisa Wilkinson stands by claim that Linda Reynolds was ‘lying through her teeth’
Defamation 2023-12-15 10:23 pm By Cindy Cameronne

Network Ten journalist Lisa Wilkinson has been accused of bias towards former defence minister Linda Reynolds because of a message she sent hours before an episode of The Project aired in which Brittany Higgins alleged she was raped in Parliament House, in which she said the senator was “lying through her teeth”.

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Bruce Lehrmann won’t recall Brittany Higgins over recorded chat between lawyer, fiancĂ©
Defamation 2023-12-15 1:59 pm By Cindy Cameronne

Bruce Lehrmann will not call Brittany Higgins back to the witness box in his defamation trial against Network Ten and journalist Lisa Wilksinon to give evidence on a secret recording of a conversation between her fiancé and solicitor.

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Honda cops $6M penalty for misleading customers about dealerships
Competition & Consumer Protection 2023-12-15 10:22 pm By Cat Fredenburgh

Honda Australia has been hit with a $6 million penalty for misleading communications made to customers of three dealerships during a restructuring in which the car maker’s shuttered its independent dealer network in favour of an agency model.

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