BlueScope Steel general manager Jason Ellis was not an honest witness and did not express genuine regret when he apologised for obstructing an ACCC investigation, a court hearing the regulatorās price-fixing case was told Tuesday.
A judge has adjourned trial in the defamation case by accused war criminal Ben Roberts-Smith to early 2022, saying relocation was not practical after COVID-19 restrictions prevented Fairfaxās witnesses travelling to Sydney.
Five enforcement officers of the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission will be cross-examined by lawyers for banks facing price fixing charges over their conduct following ANZ’s $2.5 billion capital raising six years ago.
Trial judges should not communicate with barristers outside of court, the High Court has ruled in a ātroublingā case of apprehended bias that saw a divorceeās counsel socialising with the judge presiding over her long-running and ātorturedā Family Law case.
Defence minister Peter Dutton has given evidence of his “hurt” at trial in a defamation case over a tweet accusing him of being a rape apologist, while the judge presiding over the hearing has warned lawyers for the tweeter to act as solicitors not “supporters”.
After more than a year-and-a-half of virtual trials, Australiaās barristers have adapted and come up with the best techniques to maintain an edge when cross-examining witnesses in the virtual courtroom.
The New South Wales government has accused anti-vaccination advocates of having a āmisguidedā and āone-dimensional focusā on the fundamental rights of the individual over those of a community contending with the highly-contagious Delta variant of COVID-19.Ā
Former SAS soldier Ben Roberts-Smith is fighting to shield medical records Fairfax says should be made public to āsafeguard open justiceā, as trial in his defamation case against the publisher faces further delay due to COVID-19 border restrictions.
A judge has spoken of his personal challenge as an āolder, white maleā in deciding the objective meaning of racism in Nine Network sports reporter Erin Molanās defamation case, and said the matter would have been worthy of a trial by jury.
Health experts have told a court hearing a challenge to a requirement that certain workers get the COVID-19 jab that vaccinations are an effective tool in the fight against the coronavirus, despite the global surge of ābreakthroughā infections caused by the outbreak of the highly-infectious Delta strain.