Super Retail Group’s former top lawyer wants to lift a suppression order covering details of a settlement she says was reached after she was dismissed from the company.
Law firm Maurice Blackburn is refusing to pay its lawyers over a planned partial work ban, practically shutting them out of work in a heated dispute over pay and reproductive leave.
Dentons has reached a settlement with a former real estate partner who claims he was forced to resign from the law firm and accused the firm’s Australian chair of sharing an anti-vaccine email.
A discrimination class action against AFL by First Nations players, umpires and officials has been given the OK to rejig its pleading, over the vehement protests of the league.
A judge hearing a suit against Lovisa has questioned whether it should proceed as a class action, but shut down a ‘pejorative remark’ by the jewellery chain’s barrister about Fair Work class actions.
Melbourne accounting firm Blue Rock has taken its former associate director of accounting to court, claiming she breached her employment contract by making the jump to competitor Nexia.
A Perth magistrate who wanted to sit solely on the Children’s Court has had her challenge knocked back again on appeal, with the Full Court finding court heads can allocate magistrates as necessary.
A judge has granted injunctions against the sacked financial controller for Mike Cannon-Brookes’ private company, who said he thought sharing company files with the Atlassian CEO’s ex-wife was part of his job.
A Slater & Gordon executive who was the purported author of an email sent to all staff on Friday says she’s been “wrongfully accused” and that a “cursory examination” would reveal the sender’s likely identity.
Atlassian CEO Mike Cannon-Brookes has dragged the former secretary of his private companies to court, alleging he sent sensitive and highly confidential employee files to the billionaire’s estranged wife.