A Chinese crypto miner has won its equipment back, for now, after a Melbourne business it charged with looking after the machines allegedly allowed four other businesses to access them, culminating in a five-way stoush involving an ambulance and police.
The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has instituted court proceedings against the insurance arm of Queenslandâs peak motoring body alleging it misled customers about their entitlement to discounts on a range of insurance products.
A judge has approved a $192.5 million settlement in an oil spill class action on behalf of Indonesian seaweed farmers, but the slice for the law firm running the action and its litigation funder remains to be determined amid allegations of negligence by the former lead applicant in the case.
Maurice Blackburn has had a second crack at a group costs order in three class actions against banks over alleged flexible commission schemes after a judge in 2021 rejected what was then the first-ever application for a contingency fee.
The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission has lost its challenge to a decision that tossed its case alleging NSW Ports stymied competition when it signed a 50-year agreement with the state to privatise two ports.Â
A Federal Court judge who stepped down from the bench in December is joining global law firm DLA Piper after just four months in retirement.
Journalist Tegan George has reworked her sex discrimination case against Network Ten, claiming the Canberra bureau had a culture that was âsexually hostile, demeaning and oppressiveâ.
Car repair giant AMA Group is set to file an omnibus claim against ousted CEO Andrew Hopkins and a handful of former senior executives in an effort to consolidate the allegations in a legal saga that spans two jurisdictions.
A Melbourne doctor who was not allowed to work from home following an injury has lost his disability discrimination suit against his former employer, and was ordered to pay over $570,000 to the practice for his absences.
An appeals court has thrown out a $285,000 negligence judgment against Sparke Helmore over two sales contracts worth $1.5 million and rejected a NSW developerâs attempts to squeeze the law firm for a heftier damages bill.