Law Firms

A barrister who won a defamation case against Nine over an Instagram-famous cavoodle has lost her bid to appeal a ruling in a fight with her former solicitors over fees.

A judge has tossed an application for a contempt hearing against in-house lawyers, editors and journalists at Nine who allegedly breached suppression orders in a former ABC radio host’s unfair dismissal case.

A law firm has filed a representative complaint with the OAIC on behalf of six million Qantas customers affected by the company's recent data breach.

A racial discrimination class action against the Northern Territory government and its police commissioner could "call into question" policing across the territory, a judge has said.

Developer Dennis Family Corporation has been hit with class action by purchasers of apartment units in Brisbane who allege their contracts were wrongly terminated after the market value of neighbouring properties soared by 40 per cent. 

ASIC has won travel bans against two people who are being investigated over their links to Keystone and Falcon Capital funds, which are suspected of misusing investor money, after the regulator claimed losses could be “catastrophic”. 

Atlantic Nickel has lost a challenge to further amendments to a case by failed suitor Mining Services International that alleges it lost the opportunity to purchase a Brazilian mine now valued at over $1 billion.

Whitehaven Coal, which is locked in a fight with two conservation groups over the Winchester South coal mine in Queensland, has fought off an application for disclosure of internal climate risk documents created by a related entity.

Private equity firm Goldstone has cited an "irretrievable breakdown" in the relationship between shareholders in seeking to appeal a ruling that found it liable for oppression.

Legal experts say climate-related litigation will continue -- and even increase -- despite a judge's dismissal this week of a class action by Torres Strait Islanders alleging the government was negligent in failing to protect them from the harmful effects of climate change.