The Transport Workers Union has predicted wide-reaching consequences for workplace rights if Qantas succeeds in its High Court appeal of a finding that it breached the Fair Work Act when it outsourced ground crew work during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic.
A mortgage broker has lost his challenge to a tribunalâs decision to uphold a lifelong ban by the Australian Securities and Investments Commission.
A judge has declined to stay a class action against BPS Financial, the issuer of cryptocurrency Qoin, in light of similar ASIC proceedings.
Agricultural giant Nufarm has lost its appeal of a decision giving rival Advanta Seeds extra time to pay a renewal fee for its patent for a hybrid plant cell, after an error by its lawyers caused the renewal to fall through the cracks.
Fintech Tyro has agreed to settle a class action brought by retailers who were unable to process payments during a days-long EFTPOS outage in January 2021.
The High Court has agreed to weigh in on whether Mitsubishi can be sued over allegedly misleading fuel efficiency representations on a label affixed to the windshield of a Triton 4WD that was required by law.
The High Court will hear an appeal over whether real estate agent Biggin & Scott should be held liable for copyright infringement for its supposed “indifference” to the copying of real estate marketing platform Campaigntrack’s source code by a developer.
The High Court has declined HarperCollins’ special leave application seeking to appeal a decision that revived a psychiatrist’s defamation case over a book about the controversial deep sleep therapy at the Chelmsford Private Hospital in the 1970s.
A contradictor appointed in two pelvic mesh class actions against Johnson & Johnson has blasted a $300 million settlement, calling it âmassivelyâ short of what is owed to group members, after a judge preliminarily found the sum was not fair and reasonable.
The NSW Independent Planning Commissionâs decision to approve an extension for Whitehavenâs Narrabi coal mine was âlegally illogicalâ amid current knowledge of the âextraordinary and deadlyâ impact of climate change, a court has heard.