A judge has set aside a subpoena that allegedly sought to âembarrass the New South Wales governmentâ, in lawsuits contesting compulsory COVID-19 vaccination orders made by state health minister Brad Hazzard.
The Federal Court’s decision that artificial intelligence can be listed on a patent application as the inventor has become an outlier, as the UK joins the US in rejecting what has become an international battle to claim AI inventorship.
Nine Network, Seven Network and the Australian Broadcasting Corporation have won a temporary injunction barring the Civil Aviation Safety Authority from declaring the area above the Melbourne CBD to be a restricted area in response to anti-lockdown and anti-vaccine protests that have disrupted the city.
New requirements that funded class actions be run as managed investment schemes will throw up myriad new questions for the courts, with lawyers predicting novel challenges by defendants and group members and an altered landscape for competing class actions.
A Victoria Supreme Court judge will hear the second ever application for a group costs order in a shareholder class action against G8 Education, saying she hoped to deal with the bid in a âstraightforward wayâ.
A judge hearing a $2 million dispute between a former tenured professor and the University of New South Wales has lamented the lengthy pleadings filed in Fair Work cases, saying âeverything but the kitchen sink seems to be thrown in, without any discriminationâ.
A judge has rejected an application by the plaintiffs in two class actions against Freedom Foods and Deloitte to run their cases side-by-side, but said she would have granted a bid to consolidate the proceedings had that been sought.
A former barrister has continued to practice in local courts without a valid practising certificate, in âvery seriousâ criminal contempt of a court-ordered injunction, the NSW Bar Association has told a court.
A judge has refused a bid by accounting firms Pitcher Partners and EY to access share trading data of unregistered group members in a securities class action over advice to Slater & Gordon, despite claims upcoming mediation will be “pointless” without the information.
A Forum Finance director is unable to file a defence against Westpacâs $400 million fraud case because his former solicitor has refused to hand over case files to his new lawyers until he pays a âremarkableâ $300,000 legal bill, a court has heard.