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A judge is considering the extraordinary step of ordering costs against basketball coach Shane Heal in his failed Fair Work case against the Sydney Flames, saying the case was “very much on the margin” of constituting an exception to the no-costs rule.
HWL Ebsworth and a former capital partner have both appealed a ruling that found the partner was invalidly expelled in 2020 but that his partnership had been dissolved from the day he sued his former firm.
The Fair Work Commission has ruled that an electrician with BlueScope Steel was unfairly dismissed following a complaint by a coworker who did not give evidence to the commission, finding that it was “abundantly unfair” for the complaint to be advanced as hearsay evidence.
A judge has declined to toss most of the claims brought against a crypto trading company by a former director, despite finding the director’s case “is not an easy one”.
Food giant Goodman Fielder has won freezing orders against a former employee who the company suspects of a $10 million fraud and issued a slew of subpoenas to betting firms the employee holds accounts with.
Members of the legal community in NSW are celebrating the revival of the state’s 123-year old industrial court, the oldest tribunal of its kind in the world, with the new president saying it will be "unburdened" by numerous requirements found in federal legislation.
Former Seven News reporter Robert Ovadia has filed a complaint with the Fair Work Commission over his sacking, which alleges the intentional infliction of harm by the network and its news director.
OTR Group's network of Smokemart and Giftbox stores face a potential class action that would allege the chains breached employment laws by depriving workers of breaks during shifts.
The Federal Court must guard against "exceptions by accretion" when weighing Westpac's application to prevent the public from accessing documents filed in a lawsuit by the bank's former head of strategy, which has resolved in a confidential settlement, a judge heard Wednesday.
A Perth-based partner with Clifford Chance has been shown the door following an investigation into complaints by colleagues of "serious misconduct".