Qantas faces a class action on behalf of hundreds of thousands of customers who allegedly never received refunds after flights were cancelled during the COVID-19 pandemic.
A Star Entertainment joint venture has been hit with a lawsuit by the Queensland arm of Multiplex Constructions over alleged costs overruns in the construction for a multi-billion-dollar resort in Brisbane.Â
A traditional custodian has taken Woodside Energy to court in a bid to halt offshore seismic blasting for its Scarborough gas project, in a legal challenge similar to one that put Santosâ $4.7 billion Barossa project on ice.
Pinsent Masons has recruited an energy specialist from the embattled PricewaterhouseCoopers to grow its property team in Australia.
The corporate regulator has failed in its case targeting an individual insolvency practitioner for alleged illegal phoenix activity.
In its bid for a 30 per cent group costs order, the applicant in a class action against Insurance Australia Group says the percentage shouldnât be compared to lower proposed rates — as low as 14 per cent — in a battle to run a class action against Star.
A Deloitte partner has brought legal action against a Sydney builder over variations to a $1.5 million contract to renovate his house in the waterfront suburb of Balmain, claiming the increases were meant as âcash supportâ for the construction business.Â
A judge has rejected a request by lawyers for Seven and the TV network’s billionaire chairman, Kerry Stokes, to issue a correction to his published decision ordering the production of over 8,600 emails exchanged with Ben Roberts-Smithâs lawyers in a defamation case.
Novartis has lost its bid to have Pharmacorâs claim that its patent for a blood pressure drug is invalid decided ahead of a main trial where the Swiss pharmaceutical giant will allege the generic drug maker is threatening to infringe its patent.Â
ASIC has lost its challenge to findings that a revenue sharing arrangement between the Commonwealth Bank of Australia and former subsidiary Colonial First State Investments did not breach conflicted remuneration provisions of the Corporations Act.