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A judge has said if he sides with a former ANZ trader in a privilege dispute with the bank over file notes from 2014 meetings over ASIC's bank bill swap rate investigations it would create a "whole world of pain" for solicitors claiming privilege over their notes in other cases.
A judge has ruled he will not consider a separate question on whether Acciona is barred from setting off any damages payable to Lendlease in a lawsuit over the $160 million sale of its engineering business.
Romeo's will pay $1.55 million to registered group members as part of a settlement of two class actions alleging the supermarket chain underpaid staff.
The applicant in a class action against NAB superannuation trustee NULIS has lost his bid to have a judge determine aggregate damages at an initial trial.
Victorian workers challenging the government's health directions requiring workers to be vaccinated against COVID-19 have lost their second bid to disqualify the judge hearing the case on the ground of apprehended bias.
A judge has allowed two a2 Milk trade marks to proceed to registration despite "legitimate uncertainty" created by IP Australia in a long-running intellectual property spat with competitor Lion Dairy & Drinks.
The ACCC has been accused of running a "experimental test case" that tries to fit the shares market within the scope of the Competition and Consumer Act with its criminal cartel case against Citigroup, Deutsche Bank and several prominent banking executives over a $2.5 billion ANZ share placement.
The Full Court is set to examine whether the Federal Court has the power to make class closure orders prior to mediation, weighing on one of the biggest unanswered questions vexing the class action regime.
An appeals court has thrown out a challenge to a judgment awarding a cryptocurrency trader $1.96 million in cash and a property purchased for $1.5 million over a deal with a convicted fraudster involving "millions of dollars of cash in bags and suitcases".
Collapsed NSW training company Australian Institute of Professional Education has been slugged with a $153 million penalty, the highest ever fine in a consumer law case, after the Federal Court found the school targeted vulnerable students through an "unconscionable" enrolment system.