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A former principal at law firm BlackBay accused of taking confidential client information to launch a rival law firm has lost his bid to file a new defence, with a judge calling the new pleadings "confused".

The High Court is set to weigh in on whether climate impacts were a mandatory consideration in a decision to allow the expansion of Mach Energy's Mount Pleasant coal mine.

A judge has questioned whether an agreed penalty against ANZ for overstating bond trading volumes is sufficient, noting the misrepresentations were "very significant".

A judge on Tuesday penalised Google $55 million for anti-competitive deals requiring Telstra and Optus to pre-install its search engine on Android devices, but has questioned why action wasn't taken against the telcos. 

Sydney Trains has reached an in-principle agreement to settle a class action by operations staff alleging a “systemic pattern” of underpayments and overwork.

Veteran of the NSW bar Edward Muston SC has been sworn in as the newest judge of the state's Supreme Court, but before he was prosecuting high stakes environmental law cases, his plan was to be a jackaroo.

A class action against Homes Victoria overs its decision to demolish public housing towers in Melbourne without consulting residents has appealed a judge's decision tossing the case.

Former PriceWaterhouseCoopers chief executive Tom Seymour has been fined $15,000 and suspended as a chartered accountant, shortly after he was banned from acting as a tax agent over the firm's tax leaks scandal.

Lendlease has lost its appeal of a ruling that shot down its bid to enforce a $120 million purchase agreement for five plots of land in Campbelltown against a company controlled by the Macarthur-Onslow family. 

An iProsperity director must pay $5.3 million to ZACD for his conduct in convincing the Singapore-based real estate investment firm to cough up $37.5 million for its $300 million purchase of the AccorInvest hotels portfolio.