An Airbnb hostâs claim for JobKeeper payments has been shot down, with a tribunal saying the accommodation of paying guests at oneâs own home did not constitute a business.
Grant Thornton can’t dodge a âsignificantâ counterclaim accusing the accounting firm of charging for âunnecessary and pointless” work in a case against a former client over $119,000 in unpaid fees.
The world’s No. 1 men’s tennis player Novak Djokovic has won a court challenge to the cancellation of his visa, with a judge ordering his immediate release from detention.
Class action settlement totals skyrocketed to over $900 million last year, and one law firm negotiated the lion’s share, with $672 million in settlements under its belt.
Bayer has lost its bid to redact the names and contact details of potential group members from discovered documents in a Slater & Gordon-led class action over the drug maker’s Essure contraceptive device.
The Transport Workers Union has appealed a judge’s decision that compensation was a more appropriate remedy for 1,800 Qantas workers who had been denied the “matchless blessing” of a job than reinstatement.
A group of banks that failed to prove steel giant Arrium falsified representations on loan drawdown notices ahead of its $2.8 billion collapse have been ordered to pay indemnity costs after a court found they rejected $10 million settlement offers three days into the trial.
A Fairfax journalist and his employer have been ordered to pay $400,000 for making âbaselessâ accusations of fraud and unethical market manipulation against the co-founder of an Australian blockchain-based energy trading platform.
A Sydney-based barrister has been reprimanded for relying on his âgut feelingâ in making baseless accusations of misconduct against the principal of a law firm.
A judge has voided contracts between the Morrison government and a subsidiary of Empire Energy for gas exploration in the Beetaloo Basin after finding the decision to enter the agreement in the midst of litigation was “legally unreasonable or capricious”.