Victorian Labor MP Marlene Kairouz has won an injunction temporarily blocking the Labor Party from bringing branch stacking charges against her.
Family law solicitor Christopher Bowrey has been appointed to the Federal Circuit Court to replace the late Judge Guy Andrew on the bench in the court’s Townsville, Queensland registry.
Once high-flying barrister Norman O’Bryan might seek to challenge a refusal by the judge overseeing the Banksia class action to revisit his abandoned defence and accept into evidence a document he claims proved he did not secretly hold shares in the funder behind the case.
A judge has allowed Treasury Wine Estates to apply for security for costs before a group costs order application is decided, in a class action accusing the wine maker of breaching its continuous disclosure obligations.
A vegan, cruelty-free makeup company whose products are promoted by comedian Celeste Barber has been taken to court by a US company for allegedly selling a cheaper copycat version of its $42 concealer.
Former Solicitor-General Justin Gleeson SC, who recently called for an inquiry into Attorney-General Christian Porter’s fitness for office in the face of rape allegations, will represent the ABC against Porter’s defamation claims.
The director of now defunct foreign exchange and derivative trader Forex Capital Trading has been banned from providing financial services for 10 years after ASIC found he had a serious lack of regard for compliance while overseeing the firm’s Wolf of Wall Street-esque trading floor culture.
A judge has dismissed a case run by gangland lawyer Zarah Garde-Wilson seeking details from Google about the identity of an online reviewer after criticising her instructing solicitor’s “incoherent arguments” and late filed submissions.
A judge has approved a “disappointing” $25 million settlement in long-running class action litigation over the collapse of electronics retailer Dick Smith with claims worth hundreds of millions of dollars.
The litigation funding company controlled by the late solicitor Mark Elliott has told a court of its “remorse and regret” for its misconduct in the Banksia Securities class action, a case that has been described as the “darkest chapter in Victoria’s legal history”.