Quest Serviced Apartments is using unfair tactics to unlawfully terminate franchise agreements, according to a lawsuit by a franchisee that is fighting to keep its doors open after COVID-19 restrictions forced closures across the country.
A Queensland lawyerâs name has been removed from the local roll after eight weeks of âdisgraceful, disturbing and dishonourableâ conduct while unlawfully acting for a friend in an estate dispute.
A judge has made the âregrettableâ call to postpone the trial in a case brought by workers challenging the Victorian governmentâs COVID-19 health directions until after they expire, blaming the workers for creating a series of âfruitlessâ delays.
The Supreme Court of Victoria has appointed 16 barristers to silk, nine of whom are women, including two barristers who have worked on high-stakes class action litigation.
Billionaire businessman and litigation hobbyist Clive Palmer is planning a lawsuit against the Queensland government, claiming new COVID-19 restrictions preventing unvaccinated persons from entering restaurants, pubs and clubs have created a âtwo-class stateâ.
One of the worldâs leading audio branding companies has agreed to amend its contract terms, which penalised customers for cancelling within a 42-day period of their contract ending, following an investigation by the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission.
A judge said he âgaggedâ at the Australian Competition and Consumer Commissionâs proposed $5 million pecuniary penalty in its case against specialist workplace relations company Employsure over six misleading Google ads.
A court has struck down the third wave of challenges to the New South Wales public health orders mandating COVID-19 vaccinations for health workers, ruling the “dictates” of a personâs conscience do not relieve them of compliance with the orders.
The Sparke Helmore partner at the centre of a $1 million professional negligence lawsuit attempted to conceal an âoversight of enormous proportionsâ that is said to have lost a property developer two lucrative contracts, a court has heard.
The former director of a central Queensland construction company relied on his Sparke Helmore solicitor to read over contracts for sale for him, a court has heard in a trial over allegations the law firmâs negligence led to a loss of more than $1 million.