An appeals court has returned a case to a judge it said did not give sufficient reasons for awarding damages in a case brought by flooring company Evagroup against a sales manager who left to launch a competing business.
A judge has questioned whether Tiwi Islanders’ delay in filing an application to stop Santos from beginning drilling on an offshore gas project this month may have doomed the bid.
A judge has ordered a defunct telecommunications company to pay $450,000 in penalties for flouting orders requiring it to pay out over $63,000 to its customers.
ASIC has called for a $15 million penalty against GetSwift and 12-year bans against its directors, who moved the logistics company overseas as the regulator’s enforcement action was on foot, a move the court on Tuesday said was “unprecedented”.
Owners in Sydneyās Mascot Towers have struck a deal with the developer that built a neighbouring property, in a lawsuit seeking more than $15 million in damages over alleged structural cracks that made their apartments unlivable.
In the latest round of finger-pointing in a consolidated shareholder class action against Noumi, formerly Freedom Foods, the food company has taken aim at Deloitteās claims that it gave the accounting firm misleading information.
Clayton Utz has picked up a new partner specialising in digital transformation from Ashurst to join the firmās public sector practice in Canberra.
The National Australia Bank has denied claims by a former senior employee that she was bullied and paid less than other workers because of her gender, saying a manager did not brandish a baseball bat in a threatening way but merely carried it around as a ‘fidget toy’.
A judge has ordered that a competition class action against Queensland power companies Stanwell and CS Energy be made open to all energy consumers in the state, saying it was not a āplain vanillaā commercial class action.Ā
Victoria has pledged to become the first state in Australia to restrict the use of non-disclosure agreements in workplace sexual harassment cases, which are used to silence victims and protect companies and harassers.