The Victorian government has not decided how it will respond to a constitutional challenge brought in the High Court against the state’s COVID-19 lockdown measures, and has been given just four more days to make its move.
The High Court has declined to review $280,000 in damages awarded to a lawyer, after an appeals court found a Today Tonight segment labelling her a “Centrelink cheat” was defamatory.
A Sorrento bar owner backed by two high profile barristers is taking the Andrews government to the High Court claiming Victoria’s lockdown is an unconstitutional restriction on the freedom of movement of the state’s 6.6 million residents.
The High Court has declined to weigh in on the patentability of software, rejecting e-commerce company Rokt’s bid for review of a decision striking down its marketing invention.
Media outlets facing liability for allegedly defamatory remarks left under news articles they posted on Facebook are taking their case to the High Court, after a court of appeal found the companies were publishers of the third-party comments.
The High Court has rejected an appeal challenging a ruling that found a failed political candidate liable for defamatory responses made by readers of two Facebook posts he published that labelled a South Australian businessman greedy and selfish, but the court has left the door open to weigh in on the issue of secondary publication of social media comments.
Mondelez has won its High Court challenge to a ruling on the method to be used for calculating workers’ personal days.
The High Court has denied a special leave application by the former directors of defunct financial advisory Storm Financial, after the Full Federal Court upheld a ruling finding they had breached their duties to eleven vulnerable investors by providing an inappropriate, one-size-fits-all model of investment advice.
The High Court has awarded $27 million in unpaid commissions to a Nigerian entrepreneur tricked into terminating his contract with international bank note manufacturer Securency, reversing a Full Court judgment which slashed his award.
ASIC has dropped its fight with Westpac over the bank’s financial assessment of home loan borrowers following political pressure, citing the “challenging economic circumstances”.