Companies

Google has fought off a legal challenge to a decision rejecting a South Australian doctor’s bid to access search data and internal company documents in her second defamation claim against the tech giant over alleged defamatory material in search results.

Founder and former CEO of listed investment firm DomaCom is suing Nine over an episode of A Current Affair that allegedly suggested he was involved in a sham acquisition of agriculture company Austagri to boost his company's share price.

Australia's largest milk producer Van Dairy has hit Fonterra Australia with lawsuits alleging the processor misled farmers and engaged in unconscionable conduct when it slashed milk prices in 2016.

Apple is “unlikely” to avoid production of the source code for its Touch ID and Face ID technology to an Australian non-practicing entity that has sued the Silicon Valley company for patent infringement, a judge has said.

A judge has struck out part of the ABC's defence in a lawsuit by the head of Russian motorcycle club Night Wolves over an allegedly defamatory Four Corners report.

Shareholders bringing a class action against Quintis have lost their bid for Ernst & Young to hand over documents from two meetings with a director of the sandalwood supplier, after a judge found they did not get “within a bull’s roar” of showing the accounting firm's discovery was inadequate.

IOOF financial advice unit RI Advice has escaped a penalty in a test case alleging cybersecurity failures, but the firm must engage an IT security company and pay the corporate regulator's legal costs.

Qantas and the Transport Workers Union both lost their appeals Wednesday of a judge’s decision finding the airline had decided to axe 1,800 ground staff partly to prevent employees bringing industrial action but refusing to reinstate the workers. The airline has vowed to take the case to the High Court.

Former synagogue president and Victorian Liberal party treasurer David Mond is suing Nine-owned Fairfax, The Age and two journalists for defamation over three articles accusing him of deciding to host a speech by a convicted spy.

CEO and founder of Euro Pacific Bank Peter Schiff says Nine is refusing to meet his case “head on” in its defence to defamation claims over a 60 Minutes episode accusing the bank boss of endorsing tax evasion and helping figures in organised crime.