In its first decision applying a landmark High Court judgment redefining the test for when a worker is employed, the Federal Court has found a sessional lecturer for a higher education institution was an employee.
Virgin Australia has been ordered to disclose whether its insurer has agreed to indemnify it for any liability it may have in a shareholder class action over a prospectus for a $324 million capital raising just months before it filed for administration.
The man behind the Stock Swami Twitter account is flying to Sydney for cross-examination after a judge halted a trial in mining investor Tolga Kumovaâs defamation case, saying he had âno confidence whatsoeverâ the Twitter user complied with discovery obligations.
Australiaâs oldest thoroughbred auctioneer William Inglis & Son waived legal professional privilege over advice from its solicitor Norton Rose Fulbright over contamination of land it bought in 2009, a judge has found.
A litigation funder facing a lawsuit by the lead applicant in a settled class action it financed has won its bid to transfer the case to the Federal Court, where the class action was heard, after a judge said it was the ânatural forumâ for the dispute.
Tiwi islanders in a Federal Court challenge to the Barossa offshore gas project have won an expedited trial, but the case wonât be heard before drilling starts in mid-July.
A judge has halted a defamation trial in a case brought by mining investor Tolga Kumova after saying he had âno confidence whatsoeverâ that the owner of Twitter account Stock Swami complied with discovery obligations.
Mitry Lawyers has won a discovery bid against a former client suing the Sydney law firm for $225,000 over alleged âneglect and incompetence.â
Arnold Bloch Leibler has picked up a new partner from King & Wood Mallesons to bolster its property and development practice.Â
The conduct of Corrs Chambers Westgarth in the preparation of an ostensibly independent expert report in a trade secrets case “must not be repeated”, a judge has said, throwing out the expert’s evidence as potentially tainted by the law firm’s involvement.