Maddocks has recruited a competition law specialist from Johnson Winter Slattery as a new partner in its corporate and commerical practice.
A defamation case over Facebook comments that described the Liverpool City Council mayor as a “grub” and a “crim” has been tossed for failing to pass the serious harm test.
Wotton Kearney has welcomed a Clyde & Co partner and his team of six to bolster its Sydney-based insurance practice.
Legislation forcing lawyers to dob in clients suspected of money laundering has passed, but the peak legal body has vowed to continue its push for limits to the new law.
The competition regulator has given Virgin and Qatar Airways the greenlight for a cooperation agreement to run flights between Doha and Australia’s major cities.
Dentons has nabbed former Hamilton Locke tax disputes partner Damien Bourke, who wants to build up the team aggressively and nominated ATO understaffing as a pressing issue.
Online travel booking site Webjet has been taken to court by the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission for allegedly misleading consumers about flight prices and bookings.
The federal government spent more than $600 million on private law firms in 2022-23, and Clayton Utz was the firm the government turned to the most.
Supermarkets could face $10 million fines for breaking a soon-to-be mandatory industry code under legislation introduced by the Albanese government.
Google is facing a class action investigation into whether its allegedly anti-competitive conduct in the advertising technology market caused publishers to receive less revenue than the otherwise would have.