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Before the decision in the Brambles case this week -- the first shareholder class action to succeed at trial -- the path to proving loss from disclosure breaches was a thicket of, well, brambles. Now after six consecutive losses, Justice Bernard Murphy has paved the way for plaintiffs to prevail.

The solicitor wife of South Australia Court of Appeal president Justice Mark Livesey is under investigation by the state's legal watchdog for forwarding client files to her husband.

Institutional asset manager IFM Investor was ready to sweep up Dexus' shares in Melbourne Airport operator APAC under a forced sale process triggered by a default notice for alleged confidentiality breaches, a court heard Tuesday.

Mastercard has hit back at the ACCC’s claims that it sought to prevent competition with EFTPOS through strategic agreements with large retailers, saying the deals were struck for “benign and pro-competitive” reasons. 

Bentleys Wealth is suing a former director and his companies alleging he poached clients after leaving the firm, in breach of his employment agreement and various duties. 

The Victorian Court of Appeal will rule on whether to grant a lawyer an extension to appeal a tribunal decision ordering that he be removed from the roll and barred from practicing for nine years, after he argued a judge's adverse comments about him during an adjournment rendered a tribunal decision void. 

A unit of Wheaton Previous Metals has entered into an innovative $424 million (US$300 million) agreement that will help fund the construction of KGL Resources' Jervois copper project in the Northern Territory. 

The funder that's backing a class action over land compulsorily acquired for Sydney's WestConnex road project has been ordered to pay security in satellite proceedings seeking to claw back $1.4 million in costs from the lead applicants.

The Full Court has found that a pleading error in an underpayments class action against The Reject Shop which left it empty of group members can be fixed but that the amended pleading cannot be backdated.

A 27-year old cricketer who will be permanently bound to a wheelchair has won a $15.2 million judgment against a local council over its failure to install pedestrian gates at a convenient location near the cricket grounds, with a judge finding this led to players routinely jumping a fence to exit.