Victoria has pledged to become the first state in Australia to restrict the use of non-disclosure agreements in workplace sexual harassment cases, which are used to silence victims and protect companies and harassers.
Explosives manufacturer Orica is closer to taking Dyno Nobel to court for allegedly infringing three of its explosives patents, filing proceedings to get more information about its rival’s CyberDet wireless detonator device.
Norton Rose Fulbright has lost the co-head of its energy, infrastructure and resources team in Australia to King & Wood Mallesons, just months after the group’s other leader jumped ship to another Big Six firm.
A former Norton Rose Fulbright digital marketing manager is trying to revive her allegations that the firm fired her after she complained of bullying and sex discrimination by her supervisor.
Citigroup has settled a lawsuit alleging it gave a customer conflicted financial advice to invest most of her savings in “risky” products, despite her being an inexperienced investor with limited funds.
Former attorney-general Christian Porter has joined the legal team of underworld figure Mick Gatto in his High Court bid to revive defamation claims against the ABC over an article he said accused him of threatening to kill gangland lawyer Nicola Gobbo.
Fintech startup Zeller Technologies has taken millennial financial adviser Victoria Devine to court after she succeeded in quashing its application to trade mark the word ‘Zeller’.
A judge has signed off on the discontinuance of two class actions against Canberra property developers for allegedly misleading investors about GST on their apartments, after the High Court declined to review a ruling that made the cases “uneconomic” for the funder to pursue.
An environmental group is challenging the approval of an extension for Whitehaven’s Narrabi coal mine, arguing the NSW Independent Planning Commission failed to consider the project’s impact on climate change.
Failed neobank Volt is facing an investor class action investigation over representations made in a series of funding rounds that raised $219 million before announcing last week that it would shut its doors.