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An appeals court has set aside a $160,000 judgment against Sydney law firm Atanaskovic Hartnell, overturning a finding that a founding partner engaged in a "campaign of denigration" against a former general manager.
A judge has ordered Victoria's Peninsula Health to fork over $316,260 in penalties for failing to pay overtime to a junior doctor leading a class action, saying the hospital operator had a “highly irresponsible attitude”.
Distribution company Metcash has lost its bid to overturn a decision that found it had to provide employees with a 12-hour break between shifts irrespective of whether the work was ordinary or overtime hours.
A ninth class action has been filed on behalf of junior doctors in Victoria who were allegedly underpaid for shift work, after two landmark wins in the Gordon Legal-led underpayments class actions.
The National Anti-Corruption Commission will reconsider investigating six people involved in the Robodebt scheme after a report found commissioner Paul Brereton SC should have done more to remove himself from the decision.
The judge overseeing a $180.4 million settlement in a stolen wages class action has railed against Shine Lawyers' $10 million bill for the costs of registration, saying “something has gone seriously wrong”.
Investment manager Salter Brothers has sued XL Insurance, saying it has “unreasonably delayed” covering the costs of defending a former client’s lawsuit alleging misleading conduct.
ASIC has won its case against insurer HCF Life over a pre-existing condition term that was likely to mislead the public, but failed to convince the court that it was an unfair contract term.
Santos’ plan to reach net zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2040 was “little more than a series of speculations”, a shareholder group has said on the first day of trial in a landmark greenwashing case.