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Email with paraphrased legal advice privileged, FWC finds in union’s multi-employer deal row
Energy & Natural Resources 2024-05-30 11:35 pm By Andy Sidler

The Fair Work Commission has found in favour of a union in its bid to keep an email containing legal advice confidential amid a stoush with Peabody Energy and other mining companies over a proposed multi-enterprise agreement. 

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Rugby Australia faces potential court action over Melbourne Rebels axing
Sports 2024-05-30 11:23 pm By Andy Sidler

Rugby Australia faces a possible legal fight following its decision to bar the Melbourne Rebels from participating in the 2025 Super rugby Pacific competition, after a private consortium failed to convince the league of the Rebels’ financial viability. 

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Successful discrimination suit against fintechs could shift ‘debanking’ trend
Financial Services 2024-05-30 11:54 pm By Andy Sidler

A Melbourne sex worker has discontinued his discrimination claim against two financial service providers that denied him an EFTPOS machine, on the proviso that the companies will not refuse services to customers engaged in lawful sex work. 

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‘Grossly excessive’: Energy broker can’t enforce confidentiality agreement
Employment 2024-05-28 11:31 pm By Andy Sidler

A judge has blasted energy broker Energy Action’s bid for interim orders enforcing a confidentiality agreement against a former employee who jumped ship to a competitor, calling the bid “grossly excessive”.

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Bonza administrators win more time to sell collapsed airline
Restructuring & Insolvency 2024-05-27 3:16 pm By Andy Sidler

Administrators of collapsed budget airline Bonza have been given two more months to try to sell the company, with the Federal Court finding a sale would be of greater benefit than liquidation to the airline’s 58,428 creditors, who are owed $116 million. 

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Global Payments’ tie-up with School Bytes faces scrutiny by competition cop
Competition & Consumer Protection 2024-05-23 1:46 pm By Andy Sidler

Global Payments’ plan to acquire Sydney software company School Bytes Learning may substantially lessen competition, the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission has said in outlining preliminary concerns with the deal.

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Samsung wins injunction banning senior sales manager from defecting to Electrolux
Employment 2024-05-22 11:29 pm By Andy Sidler

A court has imposed an interim injunction on a former Samsung Electronics business manager, restraining him from taking a similar role with rival Electrolux until a case alleging breach of post-employment restraints is heard.

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Solicitor who sought to hinder legal watchdog’s probe to be struck from roll
Business of Law 2024-05-22 11:24 pm By Andy Sidler

A tribunal will recommend that a Perth solicitor be struck from the roll of practitioners after being found to have engaged in professional misconduct for failing to comply with requests for information by Western Australia’s legal complaints body.

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Ramsay Health wins partial injunction against ‘misleading’ union ads
Competition & Consumer Protection 2024-05-21 11:25 pm By Andy Sidler

Ramsay Health Care has won a partial interim injunction banning the union representing its nurses from running ads that claim the private hospital operator runs on a staff-to-patient ratio double that of public hospitals.

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ACCC finds consumers in dark about how their data is used
Privacy & Cybersecurity 2024-05-21 11:26 pm By Andy Sidler

Consumers are “generally unaware” of the extent to which data firms and third parties mine and utilise their data, according to a report by the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission. 

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