Judges

General Motors could be stuck paying more costs than it bargained for after it settled with the lead plaintiff in a class action over a decision to retire the Holden brand.

A judge has rejected the energy regulator’s claims that the owner of the Pelican Point power station in Adelaide failed to disclose its complete generator capacity to the energy market operator for months, contributing to rolling blackouts during a 2017 heatwave.

Indian generic drug maker Cipla has sued pharmaceutical giants Bristol-Myers Squibb and Pfizer alleging the patents behind their blockbuster deep vein thrombosis drug Eliquis are invalid.

One law firm has emerged victorious in a four-way contest to run a shareholder class action against Star Entertainment with the lowest proposed group costs order since contingency fees legislation was enacted in Victoria. 

A self-executing order dismissing a woman’s false imprisonment claim against the State of Victoria after a single attempt at pleading was “draconian”, an appeals court has found.

Woodside Energy has hit back at a bid to halt seismic blasting on its Scarborough gas project, claiming it undertook comprehensive consultation with Indigenous communities and that the project’s environmental risks were of “an acceptable level”. 

The publishers of The Australian and Al Jazeera have failed to persuade a judge to hold a preliminary hearing on the question of whether the nephew of the former prime minister of Cambodia suffered serious harm as a result of publications he says painted him as a criminal.

Victims of privacy breaches must demonstrate actual loss and damage to be eligible for compensation, according to a judge who has given asylum seekers who secured a ruling from the Privacy Commissioner a second chance at proving loss from the public disclosure of their personal information.

Federal environment minister Tanya Plibersek’s decision to greenlight the expansion of two mega coal mines in NSW was contrary to findings by the “entire community of climate scientists around the globe”, a court has heard. 

United Petroleum has given an undertaking to not contact group members in a class action against the petrol giant over the introduction of loss-making Pie Face stores, amid concerns about the treatment of franchisees participating in the case.