J Hutchinson and the CFMEU have appealed a judgment slapping them with a combined $1.35 million penalty for agreeing to boycott an independent subcontractor at a Brisbane construction site.
The state of Victoria has brought criminal action against the DHHS over its handling of the hotel quarantine debacle in 2020 and wants to push off separate class action proceedings until the charges are heard.
Property owners are fighting arguments that claims in a class action over allegedly combustible cladding do not fall under a $190 million insurance policy’s definition of property damage, saying installing the cladding was like “dousing one’s house in kerosene”.
Opposition leader Peter Dutton has dropped a High Court appeal seeking to overturn a Full Court judgment that found a tweet by refugee activist Shane Bazzi labeling him a “rape apologist” was not defamatory.
Telecommunications giant Optus may face a class action over a cyberattack that left the data of up to 10 million current and former customers exposed.
A judge has suggested that financial services giant AMP bring an application for summary dismissal of part of a class action over allegedly excessive insurance premiums, questioning the basis for the claims.
The $16 billion WestConnex construction in Sydney that has allegedly damaged the properties of tens of thousands of home owners is the target of a new class action investigation.
The former CEO of Blue Star Helium has asked the High Court to throw out a $40,000 penalty and four-year ban imposed on him after the company failed to disclose to shareholders the identity of the buyer behind a botched sale of Texas oil assets.
A judge has struck out claims accusing Corelogic of unauthorised scraping of confidential information from building information provider BCI Media’s copyright-protected leads platform, finding the case was “defective and deficient in many respects”.
A judge has found that a 60 Minutes broadcast by Nine, but not a related article, carried defamatory meanings about Euro Pacific Bank boss Peter Schiff, saying the broadcast’s use of ominous music and shadowy figures invited judgment from viewers.