Judges

The e-Safety Commissioner has expanded its case seeking to have X Corp remove posts that depict a stabbing of a bishop at a Sydney church, arguing X could have done more to prevent Australian users, including children and VPN users, from viewing the videos.

A judge has blasted energy broker Energy Action’s bid for interim orders enforcing a confidentiality agreement against a former employee who jumped ship to a competitor, calling the bid “grossly excessive”.

Medicinal cannabis company Vitura Health has won its bid for orders restricting the access of a software partner to its IT systems after an alleged hack.

Optus has lost its appeal of a decision that found the telco could not claim legal professional privilege over a Deloitte report into a major data breach, with an appeals court highlighting the lack of evidence from former CEO Kelly Bayer Rosmarin.

Administrators of collapsed budget airline Bonza have been given two more months to try to sell the company, with the Federal Court finding a sale would be of greater benefit than liquidation to the airline’s 58,428 creditors, who are owed $116 million. 

Seven Network has partially succeeded in appealing a decision that revoked its rights to the ‘7NOW’ trade mark for non-use, with the Full Court finding the broadcaster used the mark on its news promotion website.

While it was unfair for a judge to pick Gilbert + Tobin to run a class action against Jaguar Land Rover on the condition that it lower its funding rate, the judge was entitled to consider the law firm’s experience in a similar case against Toyota, an appeals court has said in its reasons. 

Former Network Ten Lisa Wilkinson in seeking $1.8 million in costs in Bruce Lehrmann’s failed defamation case over an episode of The Project that aired Brittany Higgins’ rape allegations.

The liquidators of collapsed engineering company Hastie Group have lost their bid to appeal a decision that knocked out half its $120 million case against Multiplex, Lendlease and numerous other builders.

A judge has rejected Aristocrat’s bid for orders requiring competitor Light & Wonder to hand over documents to be placed “in an envelope” for speedy production should its appeal of a decision ordering that it produce the documents to Aristocrat for possible trade secrets suit fail.