The lead plaintiff in a class action alleging police conducted thousands of unlawful strip searches at music festivals in NSW has sought $130,000 in damages on the first day of trial against the state.
Woodside is facing another legal challenge to its $16.5 billion Scarborough gas project, in what an environmental group called a “test case” for how NOPSEMA will assess greenhouse gas emissions from energy projects.
The former CEO of School Infrastructure NSW directed a $20 million contract to friends — a former PwC partner and the head of a consulting firm — without disclosing any conflicts, according to an ICAC inquiry.
A stay of a $37 million 2023 judgment in favour of the company behind an abandoned $185 million development in Gosford NSW against the Australian arm of China’s Shanxi Construction Investment Group has been extended.
Seven has gone on the offensive in a lawsuit by former Spotlight producer Taylor Auerbach that alleges the broadcaster breached a settlement deed and defamed him, arguing it was Auerbach who broke the terms of their agreement.
A judge has signed off on a settlement in a class action by investors in failed advisory firm Linchpin Capital, with insurer AIG paying $12.15 million and forfeiting its right to appeal a liability finding.
Alcoa has won a transfer pricing dispute with the Tax Office, with a tribunal rejecting the ATO’s novel argument that Alcoa was not dealing at arm’s length in selling alumina to a distributor that bribed Bahraini government officials.
Biopharmaceutical company Amgen has lodged proceedings against generic maker Sandoz, calling for documents related to regulatory approval of a generic version of its top-selling bone disease treatments.
Sarah Proudfoot has been appointed as the CEO of the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission after leading the commission’s National Anti-Scam Centre.
A witness in the Ben Roberts-Smith case threatened to sue Nine and journalist Nick McKenzie, the Full Court has learned, as the former soldier seeks to reopen his appeal following the release of a secret recording of a conversation between McKenzie and the witness.