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Villa owners of the ill-fated Palmer Coolum Resort have flagged an impending strike out bid of a lawsuit brought by Clive Palmer, in which the mining magnate seeks to prevent the owners supporting a separate class action against him.
The Australian Taxation Office has won its appeal of a ruling that found that a 15 per cent ‘Backpacker's Tax’ imposed on holders of Australian working holiday visas was unlawful.
A judge has found that Hytera Communications cannot "repackage" evidence given by one of its deputy directors to avoid rules about opinion evidence while defending a copyright infringement case by Motorola Solutions.
A judge has refused to recuse himself from a stoush between litigation funder Vannin Capital and Clive Palmer’s companies over the appointment of a barrister in a claim springing from the long-running Queensland Nickel liquidation case.
National law firm Mills Oakley has been accused of negligence and breach of contract over advice the firm gave regarding the sale of shares in a personal injury law firm to Slater & Gordon.
A judge has told mining equipment provider Komatsu to consider whether its sex harassment policies and training are an "adequate" defence to serious allegations of harassment and bullying by a female employee.
The High Court has awarded $27 million in unpaid commissions to a Nigerian entrepreneur tricked into terminating his contract with international bank note manufacturer Securency, reversing a Full Court judgment which slashed his award.
An Australian mother who posted a viral video of her son, who suffers from achondroplasia dwarfism, following a bullying incident has hit the Daily Telegraph's publisher with a defamation lawsuit over a reporter's retweet of conspiracy theories that the video was a fake.
A judge has granted a mid-trial bid to bring in "potentially quite significant" new evidence in a class action against Ford over its allegedly defective PowerShift transmissions, finding the failure to file the material earlier was not deliberate but a "mistake" on the part of the lead applicant's solicitors at Corrs Chambers Westgarth.
After "unavoidable delays", shareholders will soon be notified of a settlement reached one year ago in a class action against QRxPharma, but a company director has warned group members will receive nothing of consequence and the law firm and funder involved in the case would be disappointed by their takeaways.