Former AFL player and sports presenter Warren Tredea has failed in his $1.5 million breach of contract case against Channel 9, which terminated an agreement with him for refusing to have a COVID-19 vaccine.
Ashurst is beefing up its risk consulting division with four new partners, who will launch an infrastructure and capital projects group and grow the firm’s data and analytics team.
IBAC has been vindicated by the High Court in a ruling that found Victoria’s anti-corruption agency had largely complied with its obligations to provide a public body and a senior officer with a reasonable opportunity to respond to adverse material in an investigation over unauthorised email access.
A judge has issued a self-executing order for the dismissal of a patent infringement lawsuit against Monster Energy if the inventor who brought the case fails to pay $350,000 in security for the beverage giant’s costs within two weeks.
A special leave application by the Catholic diocese fighting to overturn a Full Federal Court judgment that two school teachers were entitled to backdated pay rises has failed.
KPMG has won its application for the High Court to weigh in on the relevance of a contingency fee order in determining a bid to transfer a shareholder class action from Victoria to NSW.
A former EY partner facing ATO action for allegedly promoting tax exploitation schemes has lost a fight to shield their name from media reports of the case, but a temporary suppression order — which has been in place for half a year — will stay in effect for at least two more weeks while the partner contemplates a fresh appeal.
Despite succeeding on a number of claims, the applicant in a tortuous shareholder class action against Worley must foot the engineering services company’s bill for defending two trials.
Labour hire company Hays Specialist Recruitment has agreed to pay up to $1.325 million to settle an employment class action on behalf of coal miners that has been on foot for five years.
ASX Limited has paid a $1,050,000 fine after the corporate regulator pinged it with an infringement notice for failing to comply with market integrity rules — a first against the market operator.