The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission has appealed a judgment that found its case alleging Retail Foods Group misled franchisees should be run using a sample of stores.
A judge has ordered that the ACCC’s case alleging Retail Food Group misled franchisees be run on a sample basis, saying the regulator’s opposition to the idea “smacks of a lack of confidence in its own case.”
The sacked boss of fleet management Orix Australia, who is seeking $1 million in unpaid leave, wants to challenge a decision allowing the company’s defence that anything it owes is set off by the losses the former CEO allegedly caused.
The federal government wants to shut down an underpayments class action brought on behalf of postgraduate research candidates at universities across Australia, but the Federal Court has reluctantly agreed to first entertain the self-represented applicant’s bid to strike out the strike-out application.
The former CEO of fleet manager Orix Australia, who escaped charges of corruption three years ago, will have to take his claims for $1 million in unpaid leave to a hearing after losing a pre-trial bid for judgment.
A judge has told journalist Tegan George to rework her sex discrimination claims against Network Ten, following an interlocutory stoush over her claims that the network’s Canberra bureau, led by high profile political reporter Peter van Onselen and executive editor Anthony Murdoch “was a workplace that was hostile to women.”
One Nation chief-of-staff James Ashby has failed to revive his lawsuit alleging the federal government breached the Fair Work Act by not paying his $4.5 million legal bill stemming from a dropped sexual harassment case against former House speaker Peter Slipper.
A judge has hit Westpac with a $1.5 million penalty for misleading 141 customers into believing they had purchased add-on insurance.
An additional 1,200 women who were implanted with defective pelvic mesh devices will be eligible for compensation after Johnson & Johnson unit Ethicon agreed that findings in an earlier class action which it unsuccessfully fought all the way to the High Court should apply to a follow-on class action.
Westpac has agreed to pay $1.5 million to settle proceedings brought by ASIC for misleading 141 customers into believing they had purchased add-on insurance.