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A class action over a public housing lockdown during Melbourne's second COVID-19 wave in July last year is seeking to discontinue battery and negligence claims against the Victorian government, a court has heard.
Botox drug maker Allergan has secured an injunction against a Sydney-based cosmetics company which sought to “leverage” the reputation of the well-known injectable to sell its Freezeframe line of anti-aging topical creams.
Australian rock band Little River Band has secured an injunction against an Adelaide-based record label accused of hijacking the band’s Spotify accounts on behalf of disgruntled former band members.
The Murray Darling Basin Authority can’t rely on defences claiming it is a "public or other authority" to limit the liability of a class action brought over alleged negligent water management, an appeals court has found.
Five enforcement officers of the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission will be cross-examined by lawyers for banks facing price fixing charges over their conduct following ANZ's $2.5 billion capital raising six years ago.
Class action claims brought by trainees against convenience store chain On The Run may be discontinued because of high costs and lack of commonality if an application before the Federal Court is successful.
A former financial planner found to have engaged in a data breach at National Australia Bank will have her adverse action lawsuit against the bank partially reheard after an appeals court found the judge who tossed the case failed to properly consider why she was fired.
Struggling mining firm Griffin Coal has been ordered to pay $5.1 million to liquidators of a collapsed mining services company after a judge found it had breached a contractual term not to trade while insolvent.
Lawyers running the scandal-ridden Banksia class action have been struck from the roll of practitioners, will face criminal investigation and must pay group members $11.7 million in damages.
AMP and a number of its financial planning subsidiaries could face 1.2 million individual claims if they win a bid to declass a group proceeding over allegedly excessive insurance premiums, a judge has said.