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Fighting what they say is a stultifying $1.23 million order for security for defence costs in a class action, franchisees of Hog's Breath Cafe have argued it is up to the restaurant chain to prove group members can pony up the dough.
Former Channel 7 rugby league journalist Josh Massoud has lost an appeal of a decision clearing multiple media outlets of defamation over reports alleging he threatened to kill and defile the corpse of a young reporter.
Mitsubishi Motors has lost its legal challenge to a decision that found it made misleading fuel efficiency representations on a label affixed to the windshield of a Triton 4WD sold in 2017.
Chinese construction and engineering firm BCEG has won a $12 million lawsuit against two former directors of an Australian subsidiary after they allegedly swindled millions from the company to fund their own developments and buy a luxury apartment.
Mayfair 101 has settled with liquidators of collapsed IPO Wealth Holdings after they won a bid to re-examine former director James Mawhinney over the transfer of “considerable funds and assets” from the fund to other entities.
Fairfax has foreshadowed a fight over whether former synagogue president and Victorian Liberal party treasurer David Mond suffered ‘serious harm’ as a result of articles published in The Age and Sydney Morning Herald accusing him of deciding to host a speech by a convicted spy.
A judge has allowed three witnesses for HK Realway to give evidence by video link at an upcoming negligence trial against Thomson Geer, over protests from the firm, which said it would be inherently unfair.
Thomson Geer has lured a lawyer specialising in complex litigation, including class actions, from Magic Circle firm Clifford Chance.
Nine has hit back at a class action by Indigenous Australians who say the broadcaster’s coverage of a $30 million class action settlement with the Queensland government for alleged police misconduct during the 2004 Palm Island riots was discriminatory and inaccurate, saying it reported the events “fairly and accurately”.
Law firm Russells has won a bid for further security against former clients in a negligence case over its handling of a shareholder suit against iron ore miner Macarthur Minerals.