A class action against Carnival over norovirus outbreaks on its Sun Princess cruise ship has defeated the cruise operator’s second strike out bid, with a judge saying the failure to identify what exactly went wrong “may not be fatal” to the case.
Seven Network and owner Kerry Stokes are seeking to challenge a ruling ordering them to produce thousands of emails exchanged with Ben Roberts-Smith’s legal team as Nine tallies its costs of successfully defending the former soldier’s defamation action.
Deloitte has settled a shareholder class action over its audits of collapsed construction group Hastie, a case which dragged on for six years as the accounting firm unsuccessfully fought to shield its audit reports.
A court has found the managing director of teahouse franchise Chatime liable for the underpayment of staff, despite accepting that he believed the company’s wage system was not unlawful.
Qantas has succeeded in attacking claims that it created a workplace that was “hostile to women”, leveled in a former female pilot’s sex discrimination and sexual harassment lawsuit.
One Nation leader Pauline Hanson has succeeded in overturning a defamation judgment requiring her to pay $250,000 in damages to former colleague Brian Burston, with the Full Federal Court finding an allegation of sexual abuse against Burston was substantially true.
A court has awarded a plastic surgeon $50,000 after finding he was defamed by a patient who left him a one-star review online.
Retailer Best & Less will back-pay staff over $5.2 million as part of an undertaking to the Fair Work Ombudsman, after an internal review found salaried managers were not paid enough to cover their entitlements.
A judge who previously described as a “schemozzle” a law firm’s attempt to drop a class action over Telstra’s COVID-19 vaccine policy has refused a bid to keep secret Clive Palmer’s involvement as funder of the aborted litigation.
Australian infant formula company Care A2 Plus has hit back at a $200 million lawsuit by US business partner Gensco, arguing the distributor did not properly execute the agreement at the heart of the dispute as allegations of phantom companies fly.