Events

A former Turner Freeman client is seeking to appeal a District Court decision summarily dismissing his professional negligence case against the firm and a silk over a dispute with an owners corporation. 

An appeals court has dismissed the corporate regulator's "logically inconsistent" appeal against a landmark decision that found insurer Auto & General did not include an unfair term in its contracts.

A magistrate has cleared a Tasmanian jumping castle operator of criminal wrongdoing for her alleged role in a tragedy that killed six children in 2021, but a related class action against her and the state government will continue. 

The Anglican Church's Brisbane diocese can't block the installation of ethanol tanks at a brewery adjoining the Francis Theological college, with a judge finding no "unacceptable risk” of explosion.

A court has found that an employee of a custom keycap business breached her fiduciary duties and infringed the company's copyright when she launched a competing business using unlawfully downloaded company templates.

After nearly a decade of litigation — including a High Court appeal — a court has signed off on a $3.79 million settlement in a class action against Redland City Council over alleged unlawful levies.

In a blow for the plaintiffs in a long-running class action over the government's live exports ban, a judge has found that no additional cattle would have been exported to Indonesia in 2012 and 2013 if the ban had not been in place. 

Fortrend Securites is challenging a judge's ruling that it owes $580,000 in penalties and compensation for withholding the bonuses of two departing advisors, its second appeal in their bitter dispute.

A German bottling machine manufacturer has successfully opposed PepsiCo’s patent application for a filling system, after arguing the claims were obvious.

Collapsed gold mine owner Kirkalocka has brought a High Court challenge in a dispute with energy company Zenith over the ownership of a power plant in WA, saying the case raises important issues about the operation of security interests.