US consumer goods giant Kimberly-Clark has agreed to pay $200,000 for misleading ‘Made in Australia’ representations made on its ‘flushable’ wipes.
Law firm Piper Alderman has filed a lawsuit seeking payment of an alleged debt against a former senior partner who accused the firm of sex discrimination.
While there was no shortage of pain and challenges for law firms as the coronavirus raged across the globe last year, a number of big firms also felt the sting of litigation from disgruntled clients, partners and employees.
Shock jock Alan Jones has reached a settlement in his defamation lawsuit against SBS and The Feed presenter Alex Lee over a television segment that referred to him as someone who “spoke to the fears of every xenophobe and misogynist in the country”.
Evidence of an outdated management approach and bullying — which included threatening defamation proceedings against two junior lawyers that complained about her — appear to be responsible for the ousting of a former senior Piper Alderman partner, not her sex, a judge has found.
A former Piper Alderman partner has lost her bid to bring sex discrimination claims against the partners of the law firm, but can still proceed with her other claims.
The former CEO of Commonwealth Bank subsidiary Beem It was dismissed for blowing the whistle on multiple conflicts of interest by directors of the digital payment company, just months after she was warned by one director that the “CBA wagons” were circling her, a lawsuit alleges.
The former CEO of Beem It has discontinued her legal claims against the payments fintech co-owner, Commonwealth Bank of Australia, only days after naming the bank in her lawsuit alleging workplace breaches.
Commonwealth Bank of Australia and Beem It are facing an employment lawsuit by the former CEO of the payments fintech, but details of the case have not been released pending a bid to keep the claims confidential.
The details of a sex harassment lawsuit brought against entrepreneur Sir Owen Glenn by a former executive assistant employed with his philanthropic foundation have been kept under wraps by a judge, who said allowing public access to the statement of claim in the case could undermine the parties’ settlement.