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Macmahon Holdings has agreed to pay $6.7 million to settle a shareholder class action alleging the mining company failed to provide adequate disclosures about the impact delays on a project for Rio Tinto in the Pilbara would have on its profitability.
A settlement offer promising swift payment that was sent to class members in a lawsuit against Powercor Australia over the 2018 St Patrick's Day bushfires in Victoria was misleading, a judge has found.
A Gold Coast-based derivatives trading firm has lost a defamation case against an online investment forum over critical comments warning potential investors against using the company.
A unit of Fortescue Metals Group has won its bid for emails between Squire Patton Boggs and a unit of electricity provider TransAlta Energy relating to a disputed power purchase agreement, saying privilege was waived when the emails were forwarded to a third party.
A Melbourne cafe embroiled in a Fair Work battle over alleged staff underpayments has now been hit with a $185,000 fine for copyright infringement in a separate case brought against it by the Phonographic Performance Company of Australia.
Esteemed barrister Michael Wheelahan QC, who recently led Bauer Media in its successful appeal of a $4.5 million defamation award to actor Rebel Wilson, has been appointed as a Federal Court judge.
Mobile garbage bin manufacturer Mastec Australia can access documents from a group of city councils and waste management firms to calculate damage it suffered from rival Trident Plastics unlawful copying of its wheelie bin design.
The funder underwriting a class action against Westpac will take a 25 percent cut of the net -- not gross -- recovery sum to secure a judge's approval of a common fund order in the case.
A Melbourne computer retailer that plans to appeal a $2.8 million fine for allegedly violating Microsoft's Windows 7 IP has won a stay of the court's order, with a judge finding the court's delay in publishing reasons for judgment created an "unsatisfactory state of affairs".
A judge has shot down a request by financial services company AGM that the court halt an ASIC proceeding seeking to revoke its financial services licence while a Federal Court case against it progresses.