Most Recent
7-Eleven loses appeal of $595,000 judgment for misleading franchisee
Convenience store giant 7-Eleven has lost its appeal of a $595,000 judgment handed down after a court found a franchisee signed a franchise agreement and invested almost $796,000 into a Melbourne store under false pretences.
Full Court to decide whether employment class actions ever allowed
The question of whether judges have the power to hear employment cases as representative proceedings is headed to the Full Court after a union raised the issue as it battles to have its underpayments case against McDonald's run instead of a Shine Lawyers class action.
Court warns of ‘dangers’ of defamation suits, awards Google reviewer indemnity costs
A judge who tossed a house painter's case over a one-star Google review has awarded partial indemnity costs to the critic and said her order should serve as a lesson about the "catastrophic" costs of defamation cases.
Judge troubled by class action firm’s costs, union’s delay in rival McDonald’s cases
A judge is weighing up a law firm’s high legal costs against a union’s "bizarre" delay in a stoush over who should run a case against McDonald’s alleging 100,000 workers were denied rest breaks. 
Prosecutors want prison sentence for CEO in Sydney waste cartel case
The former managing director and CEO of Bingo Industries should be sentenced to imprisonment for aiding and abetting the waste company in fixing prices for demolition waste services in Sydney, a court has heard.
TikTok loses trade mark battle with mortgage tech startup Tic:Toc
The owner of Chinese social media giant TikTok has lost its challenge to the registration of a trade mark for home loan tech startup Tic:Toc.
Law firm gets $50,000 bump in costs after breach finding in Romeo’s class actions
The fees of a class action firm found to have breached cost disclosure rules in running two underpayments class actions against supermarket chain Romeo's have been adjusted up, after $260,000 was initially cut from the bill by the Federal Court.
Bayer can take another crack at ‘scientific knowledge’ defence in Essure class action
A class action against Bayer over its Essure contraceptive has lost a bid to knock out the pharmaceutical giant’s defence that argues any defects in the device could not have been discovered given the state of scientific knowledge at the time the implants were sold in Australia.
News Corp, Ten seek to prove Higgins’ rape claims in Bruce Lehrmann defamation case
Network Ten and News Corp have mounted truth defences in response to a defamation suit by accused rapist Bruce Lehrmann, arguing the claim that he raped fellow Liberal staffer Brittany Higgins in Parliament House in 2019 is substantially true.
Judge wary of Bruce Lehrmann cross-examination in limitations stoush
A judge has expressed “reluctance” at a bid for accused rapist Bruce Lehrmann to face cross-examination at an upcoming hearing over whether his defamation claims against Network Ten, News Corp and two journalists should be tossed for being brought out of time.