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Television network Channel Seven has been ordered to pay $280,000 in damages to a lawyer after an appeals court ruled a Today Tonight segment labelling her a "Centrelink cheat" was defamatory.
A former director of Atrum Coal has been ordered to pay over $6 million owed to a unit of Hong Kong finance giant Argonaut Group after a prior default saw the former executive lose $12 million worth of shares in the company.
A Gold Coast development property procured through a settlement with a Sydney-based financial advisory firm facing two separate class actions can be sold to recoup losses by investors who sank over $14 million into a property investment scheme, a court has found.
The NSW government has flagged a possible challenge to a class action over Sydney's $3 billion delayed light rail project as the four-week trial scheduled for June is pushed back another year to allow time for more discovery.
Online real estate giant Domain has filed a lawsuit against an up-and-coming competitor in the property listings market, alleging the startup's ads misleadingly claim it will have property listings before any of its rivals.
Three Sydney commercial landlords whose properties were compulsorily acquired to make way for the WestConnex project have come to the end of the road in their fight for $56.5 million in compensation, with the High Court refusing to hear their case.
ASIC has chalked up a victory in a long-running case against a Marshall Islands-based binary options trader, with a judge finding the trader engaged in the "deliberate deception of vulnerable people".
A bitter feud between the national office of the Construction Forestry Maritime Mining and Energy Union and union heayweight John Setka, who is accused of poaching members from the manufacturing division, should not play out in court, lawyers for Setka said Wednesday.
The Federal Court has imposed a penalty of almost $5.2 million on AMP Financial Planning after finding it was "reckless" in its “lamentable failure” to properly respond to a now banned adviser who was churning life insurance for higher commissions.
The funder behind the recently resolved shareholder class action against teleco Vocus will ask a judge to make a common fund order at a hearing to approve a $35 million settlement of the case, the first common fund order since the High Court appeared to put the kibosh on them.