In a victory for Victorian independent candidate Zoe Daniel, the state’s Supreme Court has found that promotional signs displayed on lawns did not fall foul of a local council ban on unauthorised displays.
While mostly prevailing in test cases over coverage for COVID-19 business interruption claims, Insurance Australia Group has asked the High Court to weigh in on what it says is a “radical” approach by an appeals court in the treatment of JobKeeper payments.
An Emirates-owned provider of in-flight catering services has taken Qantas to court claiming it’s owed $72.5 million after the airline cut its services during the coronavirus pandemic.
The High Court will hear a challenge by Western Power to an appeals court judgment which found that the state-owned electricity supplier breached its duty of care to inspect power poles on private land and was partly liable for property damage from the 2014 Perth Hills bushfire.
The lead applicants in a class action by Torres Strait Islanders have detailed their argument for why the federal government has a duty of care to protect them from the effects of climate change, following a Full Court judgment that shot down the duty of care argument in a class action by Australian teenagers.
A Federal Court judge has criticised “inappropriate” class action reforms pushed by the government, saying the courts have done a “good job” of crafting solutions to deal with issues that arise in the class action regime.
Australia ranks second in the world for climate-related lawsuits, and the threat of climate litigation looms larger than ever for Australian companies across all sectors, a new report has found.
The Full Federal Court was emphatic in its decision that the environment minister does not owe a duty of care to Australian children to shield them from climate change harm, but there is no doubt the law will be put to the test again soon, says Corrs Chambers Westgarth’s Louise Camenzuli, Julia Green and Max Newman.
The High Court has found that three asset-based lenders behaved unconscionably when they enforced thir rights under a $1.2 million loan made to a vulnerable consumer secured by a mortgage over his properties.
US bank Wells Fargo and Florida-based aviation leasing company Willis Lease Finance will have to pay $500,000 for the relocation of leased aircraft engines to Virgin after losing a High Court bid to have the airline foot the bill.