A judge has dismissed a proceeding against the New South Wales government over a mandate requiring healthcare workers to be vaccinated against COVID-19, saying the applicant’s constitutional case was “legally misconceived and must be rejected.”
A judge has ordered a defunct telecommunications company to pay $450,000 in penalties for flouting orders requiring it to pay out over $63,000 to its customers.
Bank of Queensland is the first bank to be caught for alleged breaches under the new Consumer Data Right scheme, paying a $133,200 penalty.
In the latest round of finger-pointing in a consolidated shareholder class action against Noumi, formerly Freedom Foods, the food company has taken aim at Deloitte’s claims that it gave the accounting firm misleading information.
An investment consultant at Kahlbetzer family investment vehicle Twynam Investments has filed a lawsuit alleging she was sacked over the phone a month after telling the company she was planning for a baby.
Sydney homeowners bringing a class action over homes they claim are sinking into the ground won’t be able to recoup alleged losses from the engineering company that certified the lots for development.
Fairfax has foreshadowed a fight over whether former synagogue president and Victorian Liberal party treasurer David Mond suffered ‘serious harm’ as a result of articles published in The Age and Sydney Morning Herald accusing him of deciding to host a speech by a convicted spy.
A judge has indicated that he may allow concrete supplier Readymix to be drawn into a five-year-old dispute over alleged defects in the construction of Sydney’s billion-dollar Lane Cove tunnel.
Irish insurer Zurich Insurance has appealed a judge’s finding that a class action filed against it in the NSW Supreme Court over a defective New Zealand apartment block could go ahead, arguing the finding was the result of federal overreach.
Western Australian energy company UON has won a bid to file amended claims in two Federal Court proceedings over a mining invention it says was stolen by a rival, after DLA Piper took over the cases from local firm Bennett + Co.