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Ben Roberts-Smith flags ‘serious concerns’ about potential unlawful conduct by Fairfax
Defamation 2021-04-22 5:27 pm By Cindy Cameronne

Ben Roberts-Smith has raised ā€œserious concernsā€ in his defamation case against Fairfax that the media company may have unlawfully published classified material he allegedly buried in his backyard, with the war veteran asking for an explanation of where it came from.

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Settlement reached in former real estate partner’s feud with Piper Alderman
Business of Law 2021-04-21 1:18 pm By Christine Caulfield

Piper Alderman has settled a dispute with a former partner who claimed the law firm discriminated against her when she was ousted from the partnership.

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Law firm settles former partner’s sex discrimination case on day of trial
Business of Law 2021-04-19 4:03 pm By Christine Caulfield

Law firm Hicksons Lawyers has reached a last-minute settlement to resolve sex discrimination claims brought by a female former partner who claims she was denied a promotion to equity partner because of her gender.

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Lawyer gets greenlight to file late defamation suit against Ten
Defamation 2021-03-16 5:22 pm By Miklos Bolza

A Sydney solicitor has won an extension of time to file a defamation case against Network Ten after an appeals court found he had valid reason for not bringing the case by the one-year deadline — fighting criminal charges that were eventually dropped.

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Viagogo wins stay of $7M penalty after evidence of COVID-19’s ‘catastrophic’ impact
Competition & Consumer Protection 2021-03-04 2:44 pm By Cindy Cameronne

Crying poor during COVID-19, Viagogo has won a temporary stay of a $7 million penalty imposed by a court that found the ticket reseller misled customers on an ā€œindustrial scaleā€.

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David Leyonhjelm loses appeal of $120,000 defamation award to Sarah Hanson-YoungĀ Ā 
Defamation 2021-03-03 10:57 am By Cindy Cameronne

Former senator David Leyonhjelm has lost his appeal of a ruling ordering him to pay $120,000 to Greens senator Sarah Hanson-Young for defaming her in a series of interviews in 2018.

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ACCC’s cartel case against crane company incoherent, court told
Competition & Consumer Protection 2021-03-01 1:31 pm By Spencer Fowler Steen

The ACCC’s cartel case against family-owned crane company NQCranes suffers from ‘incoherence’, the company’s counsel told the Federal Court on Monday ahead of an application to strike out a large portion of the regulator’s case.

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Viagogo seeks stay of $7M penalty, citing ‘catastrophic effect’ of COVID-19 pandemic
Appeals 2021-02-23 2:29 pm By Miklos Bolza

Ticket reseller Viagogo is seeking a stay of a $7 million penalty in litigation brought by the ACCC in light of the “catastrophic effect” of the COVID-19 pandemic, as the company appeals a court’s finding that it misled customers on an “industrial scale”.

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ACCC’s conduct in cartel case ‘troubling’, says lawyer for NQCranes
Competition & Consumer Protection 2021-02-15 2:31 pm By Christine Caulfield

Counsel for Queensland-based NQCranes has lashed out at the ACCC for seeking to amend its cartel action against the crane company, telling a court the regulator had been warned for months that the case was deficient.

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Kimberly-Clark agrees to pay $200,000 penalty in flushable wipes case
ACCC 2021-02-12 1:41 pm By Miklos Bolza

US consumer goods giant Kimberly-Clark has agreed to pay $200,000 for misleading ‘Made in Australia’ representations made on its ‘flushable’ wipes.

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