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The High Court has upheld an appeals court ruling that Billabong founder Gordon Merchant is liable for a $31 million tax bill after selling his company, finding there was no other "meaningful or realistic" objective of the sale.

The Office of the Australian Information Commission will not take action against defunct court transcription services provider VIQ Solutions over the unauthorised access of court recordings, despite finding there may have been a privacy breach.

The High Court is hearing two challenges to the government's kids social media ban this week, with Reddit arguing the Commonwealth “cannot justify” the burden on the freedom of political communication.

Goodman Group and NYSE-listed Digital Realty Trust have made a play for a 9.9 per cent shareholding in rival NextDC in an aftermarket “share raid”, as the AI data centre operator faces class action probes into a $140 million revenue downgrade.

The High Court has declined to take up an appeal by the developer behind the rebranding of the Seasons of Perth hotel, which asked the court to weigh in on "draconian" security of payment laws.

The High Court has declined to hear the appeal of a landowner that lost a bid to remove a section of the Grand Pacific Walk north of Wollongong because the popular walkway deprived it of car access to its coastal property.

Motorola has urged the High Court to reject Hytera's special leave application in their long-running dispute over the theft of Motorola's source code for its digital mobile radios.

The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission is being urged to investigate content scraping terms proposed by Meta, after the UK competition regulator said it would look into whether the Facebook owner has abused its market dominance.

AI data centre operator NextDC is the target of a second investigation by a class action law firm after its $140 million revenue revision late last month.

An appeals court has set aside a decision to refer the NSW Local Court Deputy Chief Judge to the conduct division of the state judicial commission, after the local court's top judge communicated with a panel member via WhatsApp about the matter.