7-Eleven has reached an in-principle agreement to settle two class actions which accused the convenience store giant of misleading franchisees and underpaying employees at its stores.
The Council of the NSW Bar Association has filed an appeal after a tribunal found that a Sydney barrister who allegedly pushed an assistant clerk’s head while making a sexual remark at a professional dinner did not commit sexual harassment but was engaging her in “horseplay”.
The corporate regulator has secured a travel ban against the brother of former Nuix CFO Stephen Doyle as it pursues a criminal investigation of alleged insider trading by the executive and his family.
In a win for a long-running class action against US auto giant Ford on behalf of owners of 70,000 vehicles, a judge has found that cars installed with PowerShift transmissions were defective.
The ACCC has lost its regulatory action against NSW Ports alleging a 50-year agreement with the state, signed when Port Botany and Port Kembla were privatised in 2013, was anti-competitive.
Liberal party politician Andrew Laming has hit ABC Four Corners journalist Louise Milligan with a defamation lawsuit over allegedly “sensational, accusatory and spiteful” tweets intended to “irrevocably damage” his reputation.
Clive Palmer and his company Mineralogy have lost a challenge to a Western Australia Supreme Court decision staying a $263 million lawsuit against Hong Kong-based CITIC, with an appeals court finding the mining giant’s decision to abandon and relitigate matters amounted to “unjustified trouble and harassment”.
Energy generator Stanwell has filed a lawsuit seeking to shut down the funding for a class action brought on behalf of 50,000 customers accusing it of gaming Queenland’s energy pricing system, alleging funder LCM lacked the required licence to back the case and did not register the class action as a managed investment scheme.
Consulting firm EY is facing legal action for allegedly making inaccurate and misleading statements ahead of the 2019 sale by Coca-Cola Amatil of its fruit processing business SPC.
Christian Porter has appealed a ruling that barred silk Sue Chrysanthou from representing him in his now-settled defamation lawsuit against the ABC over its coverage of historical rape allegations.