An intellectual property firm has lost its legal challenge to Apple’s bid to patent its method of authentication on electronic devices, including smartphones. An Australian fashion designer has asked ...

A judge has slashed Slater & Gordon’s proposed 33 per cent contingency fee in a consumer class action against Insurance Australia, saying it was too high since there was nothing “particularly novel” ...

In the latest example of a judgment being overturned for uncritical copying and pasting, a judge has quashed the AAT’s decision to cancel a migrant’s student visa for failing to bring an independent ...

Jetstar has responded to a consumer class action over flights cancelled during the COVID-19 pandemic, denying that it used “unfair tactics” to avoid providing the refunds customers say they were owed.

The owners of the Werribee shopping centre in Victoria have lost their bid for preliminary discovery related to the likely recovery in their $356 million claim against builder Probuild.

A judge has approved a $57.5 million settlement in a class action against ANZ over credit card interest, including allowing the funder to recoup $1.2 million in after-the-event insurance costs.

Two Queensland solicitors have scored partial wins in their decades-long disputes with the tax office because of the Administrative Appeals Tribunal’s “wholesale failure” to give proper reasons.

Defendants in the last year’s most lucrative class action settlements paid significantly more to resolve their cases than businesses shelled out in the previous two years.

Maurice Blackburn is stuck paying $5.4 million in security in a flex commissions class action against Macquarie, with a judge saying it represents a “business risk willingly undertaken”.

An Australian fashion designer has asked the High Court to overturn a Full Court win for singer Katy Perry in a long-running trade mark dispute, saying the court’s findings “wrongly privilege the ...

Class action settlements leaped in value last year, with three settlements topping the $200 million mark.

An Australian fashion designer has asked the High Court to overturn a Full Court win for singer Katy Perry in a long-running trade mark dispute, saying the court’s findings “wrongly privilege the ...