The Full Federal Court has found that Telstra can be sued for a former employee’s alleged sexual harassment of his neighbours, finding harassment that is part of a private dispute may also occur in the course of providing services.
Telstra has been hit with a $3 million penalty by the communications regulator for billing small businesses $21.1 million over an 11-year period for inactive internet services.
The Albanese Government has floated a new regulatory framework under which businesses would face steep penalties for failing to do their part to prevent scams.
Optus has lodged an appeal of a judgment that found the teleco could not claim legal professional privilege to shield from a class action a report by consulting giant Deloitte into last year’s major data breach.
The CEO of Optus has denied it has to compensate small businesses who allegedly suffered losses during a nationwide outage that left over ten million customers without coverage or pay a penalty for 228 emergency calls to 000 that failed.
Optus is considering an appeal of a judgment allowing a class action to access a report from Deloitte into last year’s major data breach, saying its release could raise national security concerns.
A judge overseeing a class action against Optus has said there is scope for the teleco to seek redactions of portions of a Deloitte report, which he ruled last Friday failed the test for protection under legal professional privilege.
The government of India has flagged a possible special leave application if it loses its appeal of a decision finding it can’t avoid a $111.3 million arbitral award in a dispute with three Mauritian companies that invested in Indian satellites because it waived its foreign state immunity.
The federal government has announced a review into a nationwide Optus outage that left millions of customers without coverage and affected triple zero calls.
The Indian government has lodged an appeal after a judge found it can’t avoid a $111.3 million arbitral award in a dispute with three Mauritian companies that invested in Indian satellites.