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The state of Victoria has agreed to pay $5 million to settle a class action over a public housing lockdown during Melbourne's second COVID-19 wave in July 2020.
If Qantas triumphs in its High Court appeal of a ruling that found it violated the Fair Work Act when it outsourced ground crew at the peak of the COVID-19 pandemic, it would create a "whack-a-mole" legal right to terminate disadvantaged people, the Transport Workers Union has argued.
Independent Monique Ryan's ex-chief of staff Sally Rugg has reportedly settled her Fair Work case against her former employer and the Commonwealth for $100,000, in what was billed as a test case for determining reasonable overtime.
An appeals court has set aside a barrister’s $320,000 bill for a case initially estimated to cost $60,000 in counsel fees, applying a “purposive approach” to the rules governing lawyers' disclosure obligations.
Racing NSW has accused its Victorian counterpart of planning an anti-competitive agreement with five other states to exclude it from the thoroughbred racing industry, as it seeks documents to bring potential claims.
A former chief accountant for MUR Shipping who claims he was pressured to retire has won an appeal in his age discrimination case, bumping his damages award up from $20,000 to around $230,000.
Two ex-directors of Chinese construction and engineering firm BCEG who were found to have defrauded the company have succeeded in clawing back a portion of their costs of a partially successful appeal which reduced the amount owing to their former employee by around $12.5 million.
Insurer Atradius has lost its bid to bring a $1.5 billion (US$1 billion) case against four KordaMentha liquidators and 60 financiers of the Arrium group alleging they failed to act under a duty of utmost good faith when agreeing on how to divvy up sale proceeds for several entities.
GetSwift director Joel Macdonald cannot be located for service of a $15 million lawsuit by his former Melbourne Demons teammate James Strauss, a court has heard.
The state of Victoria has lost its appeal bid to stay a class action brought over the 2020 hotel quarantine debacle in light of a pending criminal action against the Department of Health.