Counsel for Peter Dutton has told a court a reader needed to do “mental gymnastics” to understand activist Shane Bazzi’s “rape apologist” tweet as saying the minister doubted rape allegations rather than “excused” the act of rape.
The husband of Sydney fraudster Melissa Caddick will be vacating the couple’s harbour-view mansion as court-ordered receivers prepare to put it up for sale.
Settlement talks in three class actions on behalf of women injured by allegedly defective pelvic mesh products have progressed “substantially”, a court has heard.
A judge has approved a 40 per cent group costs order for the law firm that’s running a class action against KPMG and former directors of collapsed mining company Arrium, the highest approved since the state began allowing lawyers to earn a cut of class action awards.
The husband of Sydney conwoman Melissa Caddick has staked his claim to a share of his late wife’s estate, and asked the court to deliver up a bundle of property, including Caddick’s Gucci wedding dress.
The parents of Sydney fraudster Melissa Caddick have staked their claim over her $2.6 million Edgecliff home, which they say they have lived in since 2017 according to a binding agreement with their daughter.
Mercedes-Benz will defend ACCC proceedings alleging it exposed consumers to serious injury or death by failing to comply with obligations under a compulsory recall of potentially deadly Takata airbags by arguing the recall was invalid.
American fast food chain In-N-Out Burgers has settled a trade mark dispute with a Queensland fast food business that operates “ghost kitchens” under the name In & Out Aussie Burgers.
A bid by the liquidators of collapsed engineering company Hastie Group for Lendlease to pay back funds it withdrew under bank guarantees is “untenable” and “misconceived”, a court has heard in a $68 million case that also targets Multiplex, Grocon and John Holland.
National fitness chain F45 has appealed a court decision revoking two of its patents for a computer-run trainer workout system, arguing its system constituted a technological innovation in the field of fitness studio franchising which rival Body Fit has profited from.