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The man behind the Twitter handle Stock Swami has been ordered to pay $275,000 in damages to Tolga Kumova, after a judge found his tweets defamed the mining investor by accusing him of insider trading, misleading the market, and running a pump and dump scheme.
Lawyers for respondents in defamation litigation have been put on notice for their practice of tossing defences around like grenades in armed combat -- it isn't going to fly any more, warns a judge whose docket is stacked with high profile cases.
A judge has approved a settlement in a class action against Queensland-based RMS Engineering and Construction alleging it refused to give staff meal breaks and threatened those who complained about excessive hours.
The University of Sydney has appealed a judgment finding it unlawfully terminated a political economy lecturer for showing students a slide of a Nazi swastika superimposed on the Israeli flag.
A judge has found Shenzhen-based based radio manufacturer Hytera engaged in "substantial industrial theft" by appropriating Motorola's source code for its digital mobile radios and should be on the hook for additional damages for "flagrantly" infringing Motorola's copyright.
Retail Food Group has agreed to a settlement worth $10 million in ACCC proceedings alleging the franchise giant misled purchasers of loss-making stores about the viability of its stores.
The state of Western Australia has been left with a $2 million legal bill for defending a defamation action by billionaire Clive Palmer and advancing cross-claims on behalf of premier Mark McGowan, which a judge blasted as "a futile exercise".
The decision by Crikey to republish an article at the centre of a defamation case by Fox News CEO Lachlan Murdoch is the focus of the media mogul's proposed new pleadings and its application to join Private Media chairman Eric Beecher and CEO Will Hayward.
The founder of investment group Mayfair 101 must foot half his costs of a successful appeal of a 20-year ban on fund raising because of the many "spurious" grounds of appeal he pressed.
A judge has granted the Pokemon Company's request for a temporary injunction restraining an Australian business from developing an augmented reality game featuring its popular Pokemon characters and selling related NFTs.