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The Good Guys $13.5m settlement includes cooperation discount
The Federal Court approved the entire $13.5 million settlement figure agreed between The Good Guys and ACCC after earlier flagging that the retail giant may be entitled ...
BIG LAW • Tue, 09 Sep 2025
Trainee lawyer bankrupts following dust-up with former workplace
A lawyer’s efforts to derail bankruptcy proceedings brought by his former workplace have fallen apart, including an attempt to have the court appoint local regulatory ...
SME LAW • Mon, 08 Sep 2025
Deepfakes bring ‘mischief’, fraud into court: Chief Justice
Much like hallucinations, deepfake material has posed very real and significant challenges to courtrooms, Chief Justice Andrew Bell has said.
BIG LAW • Mon, 08 Sep 2025
$88k in salaries, office expenses stolen by firm’s bookkeeper
A bookkeeper has been permanently restrained from working in law firms after she was found guilty of stealing more than $88,000 from her former practice’s office and ...
BIG LAW • Sun, 07 Sep 2025
Court critical of legal arguments in Coles, Woolies underpayment judgment
In a scathing judgment, the Federal Court sent the underpayment proceedings against Coles and Woolworths back to a case management hearing to determine a number of ...
BIG LAW • Fri, 05 Sep 2025
Roberts-Smith’s claim of ‘ambiguity’ towards murders dismissed in costs decision
A costs decision in Ben Roberts-Smith’s defamation proceedings turned on whether he knew the imputations to be true, including his claim of ambiguity towards the murder ...
BIG LAW • Thu, 04 Sep 2025
Court remits CBA class action into disclosure failures
Despite the Commonwealth Bank’s partial success on appeal, the Federal Court ordered that a shareholder class action relating to disclosure failures be remitted to a ...
BIG LAW • Thu, 04 Sep 2025
‘Pugnacious’: Judge critical of Erudite Legal’s conduct in bankruptcy matter
A Federal Court judge expressed frustration over the way those behind controversial firm Erudite Legal conducted themselves during bankruptcy proceedings, including ...
CORPORATE COUNSEL • Wed, 03 Sep 2025
ABC, Lattouf clash over size of penalty
Following a tense – and at times useless and confusing – cross-examination of the ABC’s chief people officer, counsel for Antoinette Lattouf argued the national ...
BIG LAW • Wed, 03 Sep 2025