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Fox News CEO Lachlan Murdoch has dropped his defamation lawsuit against Crikey publisher Private Media over an article that allegedly linked him to the January 6 attack on the US Capitol.
Cruise operator Scenic Tours is stuck with a $10 million damages bill but has avoided paying for disappointed traveller’s flights, after an appeals court mostly rejected its appeal of an award to travellers who were promised a “once in a lifetime cruise along the grand waterways of Europe” but were instead forced to take the bus.
The state of Victoria is trying again to stay a class action over the 2020 hotel quarantine debacle in light of a pending criminal action against the Department of Health, telling an appeals court the fundamental principles of the criminal justice system must be protected.
A judge has slammed as a "schemozzle" a law firm’s attempt to drop a class action by Telstra employees over the telecom giant’s COVID-19 vaccine policy, saying it failed to seek court approval for the discontinuance or give notice to group members as required.
Discount retail chain The Reject Shop has become the latest Australian company to be stung with an underpayments class action.
Qoin cryptocurrency issuer BPS Financial is fighting a class action applicant’s bid to amend its case for the fourth time, saying it is trying to bring an "entirely new claim".
Senior restructuring and insolvency lawyers have welcomed a novel ruling that found a liquidator was entitled to claim his costs ahead of the preferred claims of company employees, but questions remain about the "potentially difficult" interaction between two conflicting priority regimes.
Toyota unit Hino has been hit with a second class action alleging it misrepresented the fuel efficiency and emissions performance of certain diesel vehicles for nearly twenty years.
The National Australia Bank and its former head of repo trading both “might need a bit of a reality check” in a discovery stoush, a judge has said in a case alleging the senior employee was bullied and paid less than other workers because of her gender.
A judge won't stay a reference process which US company Fluor claims is infected with bias, in a "monumental" dispute with energy giant Santos that has already generated a $57.5 million legal bill for the engineering firm.