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Boral's former CEO Michael Kane can be questioned at trial over a reference he made in an email to findings by EY about the building material group's poor performing US windows business, despite claims that the findings were privileged.
P&O Cruises has resolved a group of personal injury cases by passengers who were seriously hurt in a bus collision in Vanuatu in 2016.
The federal government has agreed to pay up to $202 million to settle a class action on behalf of First Nations people in the Northern Territory who were allegedly denied wages owed for work performed over a nearly 40-year period.
The High Court has agreed to weigh in on the genuine redundancy exclusion under unfair dismissal laws, taking up an appeal of a Federal Court ruling that found employers must first consider redeployment.
Citing the significant time and costs invested in the litigation, the applicant in the second filed class action over the collapse of Quintis wants his half of a $4.37 million settlement with the sandalwood producer to fund ongoing costs in what remains of the case.
A ruling this week that kept intact a contingency fee rate of 27.5 per cent sought by Slater & Gordon to run a shareholder class action against G8 Education might encourage law firms to seek higher percentage payouts at the outset of group proceedings in Victoria.
A former PricewaterhouseCoopers senior associate has resolved her suit alleging she was sacked after complaining of bullying by a supervisor on the firm's diversity team.
A former human resources executive at Accenture is pushing back against an application by the consulting giant to suppress her employment case pending mediation, saying the cat is already out of the bag.
Barristers have welcomed as a positive step a proposal by the Australian Bar Association to require yearly discrimination and harassment training to the rules governing the professional development of members.
The law firm running class actions against ANZ and Westpac has been pulled up for claiming confidentiality over a solicitor's affidavits on the costs incurred by the applicants since the court approved settlements in the cases.