Former radio host Antoinette Lattouf will soon file Federal Court proceedings against the ABC after an attempt to mediate a dispute over her alleged unlawful termination was unsuccessful.
BHP wants to appeal a decision giving a class action the OK to fix what a judge accepted was an “inadvertent mistake” that resulted in a ruling — itself the subject of an appeal — which limited the group member definition.
NSW’s workplace health and safety regulator is conducting inquiries into Nine Entertainment amid allegations of inappropriate behaviour by its former news director, as several women in the TV industry mull sexual harassment and discrimination claims.
A day after the National Anti-Corruption Commission closed its investigation of six officials linked to the Robodebt scandal, an appeals court has overturned a decision barring access by a campaigner to documents related to the disastrous scheme for collecting Centrelink debts.
The judge overseeing a six-year-old class action against BHP over the collapse of a Brazilian dam has allowed the applicant to retroactively amend the group definition, accepting that a pleading mistake was contrary to the intended class membership in the case.
A judge will not allow a law firm that stepped in to lead class actions against Hyundai and Kia to amend its funding proposal to seek a group costs order ahead of a carriage fight, even though its proposal would have led to greater returns for group members.
Former radio host Antoinette Lattouf is planning to bring an unfair termination case against the broadcaster, after the Fair Work Commission found the ABC terminated her from a casual presenting role.
A judge has ordered Crown Resorts to share the costs of soft class closure with the plaintiff in a shareholder class action accusing it of lax anti-money laundering compliance, saying that soft class closure ahead of mediation was in the interests of both parties.
A Melbourne sex worker has discontinued his discrimination claim against two financial service providers that denied him an EFTPOS machine, on the proviso that the companies will not refuse services to customers engaged in lawful sex work.
While it was unfair for a judge to pick Gilbert + Tobin to run a class action against Jaguar Land Rover on the condition that it lower its funding rate, the judge was entitled to consider the law firm’s experience in a similar case against Toyota, an appeals court has said in its reasons.