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Crying poor during COVID-19, Viagogo has won a temporary stay of a $7 million penalty imposed by a court that found the ticket reseller misled customers on an “industrial scale”.
A judge has found the lead applicant and funder in a discontinued class action against Pitcher Partners over its auditing of Slater & Gordon must pay the bill for the flurry of cross-claims brought in the proceeding, but has rejecting the accounting firm's argument that its costs should be paid on an indemnity basis.
The Victorian government will argue for summary dismissal of two class actions filed over the bungled COVID-19 hotel quarantine program said to be responsible for the state's second pandemic wave last year.
The Federal Government has argued a class action against the expansion of a northern NSW mine has "conspicuously failed" to show that the emissions would contribute to "catastrophic harm", but a judge has questioned the Commonwealth's contention that other countries would be responsible for the emissions.
The former group treasurer of collapsed steel giant Arrium has hit back at claims brought by the company's liquidators that it was trading while insolvent, arguing the case had been 'infected' by evidence from an expert who was also a plaintiff in the case.
The Australian Competition & Consumer Commission has retreated from its claim Samsung Electronics allegedly made false, misleading and deceptive representations when marketing the water resistant capabilities of its Galaxy smartphones without reasonable grounds.
Tech giant Apple will not be forced to hand over documents about Australian users to Epic Games ahead of argument on Apple's application to shut down the game maker's competition case, a judge has ruled, likening Epic's imprecise notice to produce to the "cheerful pastime of drift netting".
Former senator David Leyonhjelm has lost his appeal of a ruling ordering him to pay $120,000 to Greens senator Sarah Hanson-Young for defaming her in a series of interviews in 2018.
Carlton United Breweries has appealed a ruling ordering it to hand over almost 1,500 documents to the Commissioner of Taxation relating to an audit of the beer giant.
Embattled financial services firm Greensill Capital has lost an emergency bid for a temporary mandatory injunction that would have forced its insurer to renew trade credit policies covering $4.6 billion in client loans as it fights to avoid collapse.