Telstra has won its battle with Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane over a planned upgrade of its payphone network across Australia, with a judge ruling the teleco did not need planning permits to install the next generation, digital phone booths.
Livestock exporter Wellard is facing a shareholder class action over a profit downgrade following its $300 million initial public offering in 2015.
Facebook has been hit with regulatory action by the Privacy Commissioner alleging the social media giant exposed the personal information of over 300,000 Australian users to third parties, including Cambridge Analytica, without authorisation.
Fonterra Brands has been blocked from accessing documents recording a witness statement made and later disputed by Bega’s executive chairman, in a dispute between the two dairy companies over a trade mark licence agreement.
International passengers from five countries have been given the go-ahead to join a class action alleging travel agency Scenic Tours owes damages to European cruise passengers forced to take buses when heavy rain flooded waterways to include.
Staff at the Sydney office of Clayton Utz can return to work Monday after the law firm sent employees home last week amid concerns that one of its employees has been exposed to the coronavirus.
A judge has ordered Johnson & Johnson to include a graphic warning on the patient information leaflets and instructions for use that accompany four of its pelvic mesh products, following a class action over the devices which saw the three lead applicants awarded $2.6 million in damages.
Country Care and two employees have lost an appeal of a first-of-its kind Federal Court ruling on jury directions in a criminal cartel case against the mobile equipment provider.
Calling the complex intellectual property dispute a “total war” between the tech giants, a judge has dismissed a proposed amended defence by Hytera Communications to Motorola’s allegations of copyright infringement, finding that the “wholly new case” would derail an upcoming trial in May and push it back by at least a year.
While the recommendations of three previous inquiries stay shelved, Attorney General Christian Porter has announced another examination into Australia’s class action regime, a move panned as purely political by at least one leading practitioner.