Medibank was formally notified Tuesday of a class action-style complaint brought on behalf of millions of customers in the wake of last month’s massive data breach.
Nine has mostly lost its bid to shield documents produced under subpoena in a defamation case brought over A Current Affair’s coverage of barrister Gina Edwards’ custody battle for famed social media pooch Oscar the cavoodle.
A judge has signed off on a group costs order in class action against Allianz over add-on car insurance that will give plaintiff law firms Johnson Winter & Slattery and Maurice Blackburn no more than 25 per cent of any resolution in the case.
The corporate cop has named eleven current and former Star Entertainment directors and officers in a civil penalty case alleging breaches of duties in relation to the company’s non compliance with anti-money laundering laws.
A Sydney barrister was embarrassed and afraid to return to chambers following Channel Nine’s allegedly defamatory coverage of her custody battle for famed social media pooch Oscar the cavoodle, a court has heard.
The personal details of 130,000 Telstra customers were accidentally released in a privacy breach the result of a “misalignment of databases”, the telecommunications giant has revealed.
The Star Entertainment Group has been hit with a $100 million fine as part of disciplinary action by Queensland’s gaming regulator following the findings of a state review and a determination by the Attorney-General that the company is unsuitable to hold a casino licence.
The ACCC has lost proceedings accusing Google of duping millions of Australians into agreeing to expand the scope of personal information the tech giant could collect and combine for use in targeted advertising.
The High Court has unanimously dismissed Western Power’s challenge to a judgment which found 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.
A judge has imposed a $21 million penalty on Uber for misleading customers through platform-wide cancellation messages and estimated fares on its Uber Taxi option, $5 million short of the “very substantial” sum jointly agreed by the parties.