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Lawyers running a class action against Qantas over flight cancellations during COVID-19 will take home $15 million from a $105 million settlement, while the funder is set to receive another $25 million, a court has heard.

A former director of marketing companies linked to the failed Shield and First Guardian funds says ASIC's 14-month investigation has left him facing a travel ban and freezing orders but no substantive allegations.

During her second day on the stand in a defamation trial, actress Rebel Wilson denied using an alleged sexual harassment complaint as leverage against her fellow producers on 'The Deb'.

Mastercard considered threatening Coles with losing its discounted interchange fees to rival Woolworths if the supermarket chain re-routed customer debit and credit transactions away from the payments giant, a trial judge has heard in the ACCC's misuse of market power case.

Three years after filing, the class actions against Hyundai and Kia are trying to pinpoint the defect at the heart of the cases, with the car manufacturers complaining that the newest pleading, which seeks to expand the claims to include an additional 380,000 vehicles, is still missing key details. 

The operator of a 4,000-space car park at the Grand Central shopping centre in Toowoomba, which is part of a $500 million redevelopment, has lost its fight with the tax office over fringe tax related to employee parking. 

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.

The High Court has been asked to overturn a ruling from the Victorian Court of Appeal that found domestic building insurance policies do not respond to when a defect arises, but rather to when loss or damage is suffered.

In a landmark recent decision, the Federal Court has confirmed that getting credits wrong or trying to contract your way out of giving them carries serious legal and commercial consequences, says Clayton Utz head of digital and intellectual property Timothy Webb and lawyer Chelsea Manansala.

Three partners have joined Mills Oakley, expanding the law firm's government, taxation and workplace relations teams.