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One Nation leader Pauline Hanson has been given the go-ahead to amend her discrimination suit against former senator Brian Burston, but is blocked from relying on transcript evidence from his defamation case.

Toyota has lost its bid to subpoena Shopify Singapore for sales records relating to its allegations that Australian spare parts company OZI4x4 sold counterfeit tail lights and armrests. 

A protestor charged for resisting police is launching a civil case against the state of NSW for her treatment at the hands of police, with claims to include assault and false imprisonment.

Two proponents of Bitcoin Cash have battled before IP Australia over the trade mark 'Bitcoin Cash City', with one claiming he coined it in a text message in 2019.

A Victorian construction company is fighting a bid by a creditor it says should not be allowed to “come out of the woodwork” and take over the winding up application of a company that has since been deregistered.

Administrator appointments for construction companies leaped 20 per cent in the latest financial year, according to data released by the corporate regulator.  

GM can't strike out a class action over alleged faulty transmissions in Holden cars, with a judge saying the case doesn't need to identify the “precise mechanical, metallurgical or engineering explanation” for alleged defects.

Former CFMEU figure John Setka has denied the workplace watchdog’s claims that he tried to coerce the AFL into sacking its head umpire over his previous role at the Australian Building and Construction Commission, saying the union had a legitimate political interest in polemicising against an “anti-unionist” officiating “a working man’s sport”.

A long-running class action against the Murray Darling Basin Authority over alleged negligent water management, including the failure to consider the impacts of climate change, will head to trial next month, just weeks after the court issues judgment in another closely watched climate class action. 

Builder Acciona and consultant AECOM have been named as defendants in a class action on behalf of families of victims of a bus accident in Hunter Valley, NSW, facing allegations they were responsible for the construction and certification of the interchange where it occurred.