Judges

A court has found that defunct printing cartridges supplier Beacon used deceptive sales tactics to dupe customers into paying for goods they did not order, in conduct described as "fundamentally dishonest”. 

The Full Federal Court has found Hansard extracts are inadmissible in Tesa Group's judicial review challenge to Fair Work Commission Deputy President and former Labor MP Terri Butler's refusal to recuse herself from the mining company's 'same job, same pay' cases.

A class action against Insurance Australia wants to add car insurance customers to the case, and says extra defence costs by IAL -- which has already spent a "disproportionate" $3 million -- shouldn't bar the new claims.

A judge has hit ASX Limited with a $20.5 million penalty after it admitted that a February 2022 statement to the market that its CHESS replacement project was “progressing well” was misleading. 

A judge who is overseeing a class action over the government's Work for Dole program has warned against overworking lawyers after the applicant pushed for more efficient discovery.

Victoria’s State Revenue Office has gone to the High Court in its battle with shopping centre landlord Vicinity Funds over $82.5 million in stamp duty.

A court has heard that the CEO of collapsed developer Crown Group and an associated company owe $12 million in the company's liquidation.

Four contractors are facing cross-claims in a class action against developer Mulpha over a 683-lot development in Glenmore Park.

A former producer of Seven's Spotlight, who gave evidence in Bruce Lehrmann's defamation case, is seeking to remove Thomsons as the solicitor for News Corp in his defamation and racial discrimination suit against the publisher. 

ASIC may reconsider its approach to claims against non-executive directors after failing to prove that three NEDs of Rex had actual knowledge that the failed budget airline did not have a reasonable basis for a rosy profit forecast, experts told Lawyerly.