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A judge has ordered the NSW government to pay $93,000 in damages to the lead plaintiff in a class action over police strip searches at music festivals, finding a “conspicuous deficiency” in the training of officers. 

The Commonwealth has been hit with a class action on behalf of thousands of Indigenous people living in remote areas who took part in the “discriminatory and unjust” Work for the Dole program.

Ashurst-represented Snowy Hydro has reached a landmark 15-year virtual tolling agreement with Akaysha Energy for Victoria's Elaine Battery Energy Storage System, the first battery toll pact for the energy company.

Developer Robert Filippini is appealing a ruling that granted the liquidators for Keystone Asset Management's expanded freezing orders of up to $158 million in assets as well as two family trusts and four luxury cars. 

In the first penalty to be handed down for breaches of the Privacy Act, pathology services provider Australian Clinical Labs has agreed to cop a $5.8 million fine over a 2022 data breach that compromised the personal information of 223,000 customers of its Medlab business.

Former ANZ trader Etienne Alexiou has admitted during cross-examination that lewd messages sent to other bankers through Bloomberg’s messaging platform were inappropriate and could cause offence.

ANZ can't call its former group chief risk officer — now a strategic advisor for Clayton Utz — to give evidence as it defends a whistleblower case by former trader Etienne Alexiou.

Optus has suffered another Triple Zero outage, just over a week after a 13-hour outage across three states that was linked to the deaths of three people.

Jayco must spell out its claim that it explained the specific features of its recreational vehicles to customers, as part of its defence to an ACCC case over alleged misleading statements, a judge has said.

A residential land lease community in NSW's Central Coast must repay residents for a fee hike after a tribunal ruled the contractual term providing for the increase involved “double dipping” to account for inflation.