Industries

A former star of Real Housewives of Melbourne has denied altering text messages in a case alleging her sister gave her a $2 million Toorak townhouse in return for relinquishing her stake in a music production business.

Traditional land owners in the central Pilbara have filed a class action to force the removal of dumped asbestos waste, some 60 years after the Wittenoom asbestos mines closed and the town was struck from the map.

A judge has struck out sections of natural gas exporter Australia Pacific LNG’s defence in Tri-Star’s long-running case over coal seam gas fields in Queensland, which centres on a $7.6 billion share sale to ConocoPhillips.

The tax office has won the appointment of special purpose liquidators to entities behind a number of Queensland construction projects, as it seeks to claw back a claimed $16 million debt.

Former ANZ CEO Shayne Elliott has dropped a lawsuit alleging the bank breached the terms of a contract governing his departure when it denied him $13.5 million in bonus payments.

A cocktail bar located in the basement of Merivale's Fred's restaurant in Paddington has won court approval to trade until 2 am four days a week.

Latitude Group says it will defend a "fundamentally flawed" class action over an allegedly misleading interest-free ad promotion by Harvey Norman that required customers to apply for a Latitude GO credit card.

One week out from trial in the Parramatta Eels case against player Zac Lomax, a judge has dismissed Lomax’s bid to have Melbourne Storm Chairman Matt Tripp give evidence remotely to accommodate his plans to travel for the NRL season opener in Las Vegas. 

Harvey Norman is facing a class action over 'interest-free' ads which the Federal Court has found were misleading.

A Melbourne gynaecologist faces a possible class action by women who claim they underwent unnecessary endometriosis surgeries.