Events

ANZ has sued several insurers seeking coverage for two class action settlements totalling $117 million, plus defence costs, in cases stemming from the banking royal commission. 

A Melbourne law firm has been hit with a $48,840 penalty in a case by a junior lawyer who was required to work over 200 hours in three weeks, including several days and nights spent working around the clock in a hotel.

Shareholders are set to pocket 58 per cent of a $65 million settlement in a class action against Treasury Wine Estates if the deal is approved by a court at a hearing this month.

A developer seeking to redevelop the site of the Hyde Park Inn has lost its bid for an extra 15 months to pay up over $95 million to the NSW branch of the RSL to settle the purchase, but a judge has handed it a win in the process for determining the final price tag for the deal.

Famed restaurant chain Momofuku has lost its challenge to the ‘Momofuku’ word mark of instant noodle giant Nissin, with IP Australia finding consumers were not likely to be deceived or confused because of the different goods and services provided by the two companies.

Dairy company Fonterra is reportedly challenging a court's refusal to give it certainty over lucrative licence agreements with Bega Cheese as it pursues a sale of its Australian business.

The lead plaintiff in a class action alleging police conducted thousands of unlawful strip searches at music festivals in NSW has sought $130,000 in damages on the first day of trial against the state. 

Woodside is facing another legal challenge to its $16.5 billion Scarborough gas project, in what an environmental group called a "test case" for how NOPSEMA will assess greenhouse gas emissions from energy projects. 

Clive Palmer's Mineralogy can access the content of email inboxes of two senior executives at engineering firm CITIC in a feud over the $12 billion Sino Iron project in Western Australia’s Pilbara region. 

A judge has said Sydney firm Atanskovic Hartnell’s garnishee order was “entirely unacceptable” in a long-running fee fight with its former client, a company owned by media mogul Bruce Gordon.