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A judge overseeing a joint class action against Freedom Foods and Deloitte wants to break a bad habit among litigators of attaching to affidavits reams of correspondence between solicitors, and she has a message for legal practitioners -- the court is not interested in what lawyers say to each other.
A high profile Tasmanian lawyer has been found guilty of professional misconduct for an “ongoing failure” to progress his client’s case or respond to her questions for two and a half decades.
The Full Federal Court has overturned a historic judgment that found the federal minister for the environment owed a duty of care to Australians under 18 to protect them from 'catastrophic' harm caused by the approval of the Vickery coal mine expansion.
Viterra has lost its battle to maintain freezing orders against two Australian business as it seeks to enforce an $18.7 million arbitration award against a related but separate Chinese company.
Doral Mineral Sands has successfully blocked a pre-action discovery bid by an irate shareholder over losses stemming from the $32 million Keysbrook mine sale, with the Western Australia Supreme Court finding that any case against Doral was "mere assertion, conjecture or suspicion"
The son of infamous Kings Cross personality John Ibrahim is challenging a recent judgment clearing publisher Nationwide News and reporter Brenden Hills of defamation over a “sensationalist and voyeuristic” Sunday Telegraph story.
Facebook has filed an application with the High Court seeking to overturn a judgment that found it can be sued in Australia for alleged privacy violations over the Cambridge Analytica scandal.
Australia and the Netherlands have taken legal action against Russia over the 2014 downing of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17, which killed 38 Australians.
Nine Network has hit back at a defamation lawsuit filed by the CEO and founder of Euro Pacific Bank, Peter Schiff, arguing that he knowingly endorsed tax evasion and attracted criminals by situating the bank in "notorious" locations with lax reporting requirements.
The issuer of Gold Coast-based cryptocurrency Qoin has asked a court to throw out a class action alleging breaches of the ASIC Act and Australian Consumer Law in relation to the issue of the utility coin.