Appeals

A former Qantas customer service manager has appealed a ruling blocking her from pursuing a disability discrimination case against Maurice Blackburn alleging the law firm put pressure on her to settle her workers compensation case against the airline.

Mondelez has won its High Court challenge to a ruling on the method to be used for calculating workers' personal days.

An appeals court has been urged to uphold a judge's $125 million penalty against Volkswagen in the ACCC's case over the car maker's emissions cheating, with a court-appointed contradictor saying the judge was "starved" of the information he required to assess whether a $75 million agreement brokered by the consumer watchdog was reasonable.

The High Court has denied a special leave application by the former directors of defunct financial advisory Storm Financial, after the Full Federal Court upheld a ruling finding they had breached their duties to eleven vulnerable investors by providing an inappropriate, one-size-fits-all model of investment advice.

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission spent over $1.8 million in taxpayer funds investigating and prosecuting its now failed responsible lending case against Westpac.

Australia and New Zealand Banking Group and Commonwealth Bank of Australia have lost a third attempt to escape a rate-rigging class action in the US, with a judge calling the banks' arguments unpersuasive.

The Australian Taxation Office has won its appeal of a ruling that found that a 15 per cent ‘Backpacker's Tax’ imposed on holders of Australian working holiday visas was unlawful.

The High Court has awarded $27 million in unpaid commissions to a Nigerian entrepreneur tricked into terminating his contract with international bank note manufacturer Securency, reversing a Full Court judgment which slashed his award.

Generic drug maker Sandoz has successfully appealed a $26.3 million judgment finding it infringed a patent owned by rival H Lundbeck relating to the top-selling antidepressant Lexapro.

Sydney businessmen Charif and Tarek Kazal have appealed a ruling that found their claims against Gilbert + Tobin over an alleged dishonest scheme to rob them of a 50 per cent stake in a lucrative Sydney waste facility were "fundamentally incoherent".