Federal Court


Centro ruling a ‘burden on directors’: Gonski

It didn’t take long for the Director’s Club to mount a rearguard action following the Federal Court declaring that the directors of Centro breached their directors’ duties.

The extraordinary assault on Andrew Bolt

Again, the courts have been the venue for a savage attack on free speech, this time involving Andrew Bolt.

Bolt’s day in court as racial villification case kicks off

You know something’s up when Herald Sun supremo Phil Gardner decides to leave the plush Herald and Weekly Times building to attend a court case for one of his top scribes. He found Andrew Bolt getting assailed over his views on Aboriginality.

Stokes bites the dust again on C7

Kerry Stokes has suffered another loss in the long-running C7 case with a full bench of the Federal Court rejecting its appeal against its 2007 comprehensive loss in the $200 million trade practices suit.

Could the Wilderness Society lose its charity status?

According to a ruling by the Federal Court, Aid/Watch is not a charity for the purposes of tax laws in Australia, due to its focus on campaigning. Is the Wilderness Society really so different?

Federal Court grants ACC access to indigenous kids’ medical files

A full bench of the Federal Court today ruled that the Australian Crime Commission (ACC) must take the interests of Indigenous children into account when investigating child abuse in Indigenous communities, writes Henri Ivrey.

Pratt Judge got the law wrong

Pratt’s final solace only came about because his judge made a big mistake.

Pratt’s defence fails to hold water

Newspaper columnists across the country have rushed to canonise the gravely ill billionaire, but the facts of the case are more slippery.

NUW power stoush enters final days

As Queensland goes to the polls, state secretaries of the National Union of Workers will be furiously monitoring their own internal ballot — and the allegations are flying thick and fast, writes Andrew Crook.