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A class action against Queensland and two hospitals on behalf of First Nations people alleging institutional racism must plead a comparator group by which their treatment is to be measured, a court has said.
The former CEO of the Australian Film Institute, who alleges he was ousted through a sham redundancy, has dropped his bid for reinstatement.
ASIC has lost its appeal of a failed bid to strike out of parts of mining magnate Clive Palmer’s claim that he was subject to an unlawful examination by the regulator, with a judge finding the pleading properly identified the ASIC officers involved.
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In the first climate change case to reach its doors, the High Court has been urged to reject Mach Energy’s “strict approach” to considering the local impacts of its Mount Pleasant coal mine extension under the Environmental Planning and Assessment Act.
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Evidentiary disputes brewing in a $55 million defects case over the Port Botany Enfield Intermodal Logistics Centre will be closely managed by the court, which has heard that the costs could surpass the value of the claims.
Wotton Kearney has entered into a partnership with legal services provider SynLaw that will allow Commonwealth agencies to brief the firm’s lawyers on public law matters alongside SynLaw.
LG Australia has defeated an appeal of a decision which found it did not breach the duty of care owed to the owners of a refrigerator which caught fire, who were not provided with a replacement through a recall process.
Zip Co will have to rebrand after losing a challenge to non-bank lender Firstmac’s ‘Zip’ trade mark, with the High Court finding the honest concurrent use is to be judged by the standards of “ordinary, decent people”, not a subjective “Robin Hood” test.
Concert pianist Jason Gillham has denied that his social media activity would have led potential concert hosts to perceive him as antisemitic, as his discrimination case against the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra heads to trial.
The High Court has knocked back shipping company CSL Australia’s attempt to avoid paying millions of dollars in damages after its cement carrier crashed into two tugboats docked in a Tasmanian port.