A judge has allowed a discrimination case brought by a transgender woman who was excluded from female social network Giggle for Girls to be brought out of time, finding there was a public interest in determining the âmetes and boundsâ of Gillard-era amendments to the Sex Discrimination Act.
A discrimination case brought by a transgender woman who was excluded from female social network Giggle for Girls may test the metes and bounds of Gillard-era amendments to the Sex Discrimination Act, a court has heard.
The question of whether judges have the power to hear employment cases as representative proceedings is headed to the Full Court after a union raised the issue as it battles to have its underpayments case against McDonald’s run instead of a Shine Lawyers class action.
A judge is weighing up a law firmâs high legal costs against a unionâs “bizarre” delay in a stoush over who should run a case against McDonaldâs alleging 100,000 workers were denied rest breaks.Â
Developer JD Group has scored a partial win in its challenge to a damages award to a Melbourne couple over a âdeliberately misleadingâ rendering of a $9.6 million apartment, with a judge saying the case showed the âinherent riskâ in buying apartments off-the-plan.
Damages owed to a millionaire couple by JD Group over a “deliberately misleading” rendering of a $9.58 million apartment in South Yarra, Melbourne will be put on ice pending the outcome of the property developer’s appeal.
Property developer JD Group will have to pay damages to a Melbourne couple after a judge found the companyâs artistic renderings of a $9.58 million South Yarra apartment were âdeliberately misleadingâ.
A judge has hit solar panel supplier Vic Solar with a $3 million penalty for breaching the consumer law by making misleading representations in thousands of door-to-door sales of solar panels.
The wealthy owners of a Melbourne shoe manufacturer are taking a unit of property developer JD Group to trial this week, alleging “artist impressions” of a nearly $10 million off-the-plan high rise inner city apartment were misleading and deceptive.
Payouts in class actions in 2020 largely kept pace with the previous year despite the financial strain of the COVID-19 pandemic, with companies and other defendants paying more than $696 million to settle class actions last year.