Refugee activist Shane Bazzi has appealed a defamation judgment ordering him to pay $35,000 in damages to Peter Dutton over a tweet which accused the defence minister of being a rape apologist.
A judge has rejected a request for bail by NSW Labor Minister Ian Macdonald, Eddie Obeid and his son Moses as they appeal their convictions for conspiring to rig a tender process and secure a coal mining exploration licence for the Obeids’ land in the Bylong Valley.
Oil exploration company PTTEP has appealed a judge’s findings that oil that gushed from one of its wells in the Timor Sea in 2009 reached the coasts of Indonesian islands and damaged the crops of local seaweed farmers.
Swiss pharmaceutical company Biogen is considering a third patent infringement lawsuit against a drug maker to shield its monopoly in Australia for blockbuster multiple sclerosis drug Tecfidera from generic competition.
A full bench of the Fair Work Commission has struck down a BHP requirement that all workers at its Mt Arthur coal mine in NSW be vaccinated against COVID-19, finding the mandate was unreasonable and unlawful for lack of consultation.
Apple has reached the end of the line in its attempts to move a competition dispute with Fortnite game maker Epic Games to California, with the High Court denying the tech company’s special leave application to appeal a judgment that found there were “strong reasons” for keeping the matter in Australia.
Apple has rejected claims that it misused its market power by pulling Epic Games’ popular Fortnite game from its App Store and says the move did not affect the game developer’s business because most of its revenue comes from other platforms.
Apple and Google’s legal woes in Australia are set to worsen, with a leading class action firm preparing to file class actions against the Silicon Valley giants for alleged competition and consumer law violations.
Twitter, Facebook and other social media companies may soon be required to reveal the identity of users who post defamatory comments on their platforms, or risk being sued for defamation.
Japanese car maker Mitsubishi Motors has been hit with a class action for allegedly making misleading fuel efficiency representations on over 70,000 Triton Utes sold in Australia since 2015.