Clayton Utz

Westpac has been hit with a $26 million penalty -- just shy of the $30 million sought by ASIC -- for failing to respond to online hardship applications on time on 277 occasions, in conduct described as “grossly negligent”. 

Apple will bring a “full-bodied” opposition to a bid to expand a class action over the running of its App Store, after a judge found the tech company engaged in anti-competitive conduct in the app marketplace last year. 

A Qube unit and a developer have lost their bid to revive a $20 million suit against the Department of Defence over asbestos contamination at the Moorebank Intermodal Precinct, with an appeals court finding the department wasn't required to return the land to "pristine" condition.

The Full Court has found women-only social media app Giggle for Girls committed direct discrimination on the basis of gender identity by excluding a transgender woman from the platform and slapped its founder with aggravated damages for repeated misgendering during trial.

AkzoNobel has lost its bid to add new expert evidence after the conclusion of trial in a dispute with Inpex over allegedly defective anti-corrosive coating used on the $45 billion Ichthys natural gas project.

A judge has tossed an environmental group's bid for judicial review of a minister's approval of plans to build water regulating structures at the Nyah Floodplain in Victoria, saying the approval was contingent on plans to offset effects on the Regent parrot.

Group members in a class action against Philips over alleged defective sleep apnea machines may seek to rely on US law, with potentially “major consequences” for how much damages they could receive, a court has heard. 

Insurer Allianz Australia has been unsuccessful in an application to limit Uniting Church's coverage for historical sexual misconduct claims to $15 million under a professional indemnity policy.

Piper Alderman has hired a leading real estate partner from Clayton Utz who brings in-demand expertise on renewable energy and large-scale developments to the firm.

Epic Games has told a judge that Apple is treating Australian competition laws with “arrogant disrespect” and urged him to order injunctions after he found the tech giant engaged in anti-competitive conduct in the app marketplace.