Barristers and legal experts are calling on the new Attorney-General to actively commit to gender diversity when she begins to make appointments to the courts, as the federal government’s promise to put its decision making through a women’s “lens” raises hopes of more female judicial appointments to correct the imbalance on the bench.
The litigation funder that backed a dismissed employment class action against aviation service provider Airservices Australia has successfully argued that it should not bear the company’s costs of defending the case
The Rolling Stones has successfully opposed registration of the ‘Jagger & Stone’ clothing trade mark in Australia, with a delegate finding the name was designed to “springboard” off the UK rock band’s worldwide fame.
Banking giant ANZ, which is facing a class action over a flex commissions scheme by its former car finance business, has admitted that the calculation of car dealers’ commission was aimed at encouraging loans with interest above a “base rate”.
The ACCC has given the greenlight to NAB’s proposed acquisition of digital only bank 86 400, saying the tie-up would not substantially lessen competition.
Food giants Arnott’s and Campbell will stop using their ‘Plantly’ logo on any new products pending the resolution of a trade mark infringement lawsuit brought by rival Goodman Fielder.
The Australian Taxation Office has come up short in its challenge to a decision that a sole trader was eligible for Jobkeeper despite a cancelled ABN, with the Full Federal Court saying the small businessman was entitled to the government COVID-19 handout.
A class action by investors of collapsed Linchpin Capital against the company’s former directors wants to join their insurers as defendants to the proceedings.
K&L Gates has fended off a mid-case bid for costs by former clients who are seeking $3 million in a negligence lawsuit and told a court on Wednesday they wasted money responding to a “defective defence” by the law firm.
Law firms could be the target of regulatory action as sexual harassment “hotspots”, with the upcoming launch by the legal watchdogs in NSW and Victoria of anonymous 24-hour online reporting platforms for lawyers.