Events

Fashion retailer City Beach is challenging a $14 million penalty secured by the ACCC in the consumer regulator's first enforcement action for breaches of button battery safety standards.

HVAC specialist Ellair Solutions has sued builder Taylor Construction Group after it allegedly placed works on a four-storey car salesroom in Croydon on hold in 2018. 

Fixed income specialist FIIG Securities has been ordered to pay $2.5 million for cybersecurity failures which led to a cyberattack that exposed the data of 18,000 clients, the first penalty of its kind secured by ASIC.

Uber drivers seeking to challenge their classification as independent contractors have argued the rideshare giant had “highly prescriptive” rules on how to behave towards customers, including 'no touching' and 'no sex' rules. 

A Sydney developer has been slapped with orders preventing it from selling the ‘Honeycomb Terraces’ in order to preserve the funds available to the owners corporation, which is seeking damages over defects at the allegedly contaminated site.

An adjudicator’s finding that it had no jurisdiction to rule on a payment claim in a dispute over a Sydney development was a binding determination under SOPA, an appeals court has said in upholding a decision that a builder’s pursuit of a second, favourable adjudication was an abuse of process.

A judge has tossed a challenge by the Palestine Action Group to the NSW government's decision to declare the visit of Israeli President Isaac Herzog a 'major event' triggering new protest rules enacted in the wake of the Bondi massacre. 

The Fair Work Commission has found an indoor obstacle course employee who was sacked after being unable to provide her employer proof of her grandmother's death was unfairly dismissed.

A class action representing KFC workers who were denied rest breaks has reached a settlement with the bulk of the fast food chain's franchisees targeted in the case.

Aristocrat has fended off the Commissioner of Patents' challenge to a finding that its Lightning Link poker machine is capable of being patented, with the High Court declining to weigh in on the patent for a second time.