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Aussie YouTube content creator hit with defamation case over product review
Defamation 2024-07-24 11:49 pm By Sam Matthews

An Australian YouTuber has been sued by a lithium battery company which asked him for “unbiased reviews” of its products, saying his videos raising concerns about the batteries are defamatory.

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AMA loses in appeal over $4.8M smash repair acquisition
Appeals 2024-07-24 11:05 pm By Cindy Cameronne

Two Gosford-based smash repair businesses have won an appeal in a dispute with AMA Group over the earn out amount the ASX-list company owed under an October 2018 agreement to purchase the companies for $4.8 million.

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Australia Post unit loses bid for quick win in sexual harassment case
Employment 2024-07-24 11:57 pm By Cindy Cameronne

Star Track Express has lost its bid to summarily dismiss a lawsuit by a warehouse worker who claims it is vicariously liable for sexual harassment after the logistics company argued she had no contractual relationship with the business.

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Ex-ATO worker was not forced to resign amid murder charges, FWC finds
Employment 2024-07-24 11:37 pm By Cindy Cameronne

A former employee of the Australian Taxation Office who faced murder charges over a cold case from 1984, which have since been dropped, has lost his unfair dismissal case after the FWC found he was not forced to resign. 

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Class action by sexual abuse survivors accuses law firm of negligence
Class Actions 2024-07-23 11:09 pm By Cat Fredenburgh

A class action has accused not for profit community legal service Knowmore Legal of breaching its duty of care and providing negligent advice to survivors of institutional child sexual abuse who settled their claims under the National Redress Scheme when they could have recovered more by taking their claims to court.

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Former OnePath chair ‘not cooperating’ in ANZ class action, court told
Class Actions 2024-07-23 1:59 pm By Cindy Cameronne

The ex-chair of former ANZ unit OnePath “has not been cooperating” in a class action alleging it breached its duties as a trustee of superannuation funds by slugging members with excessive fees to pay commissions to financial advisers, a court has heard. 

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Super Retail hit with Fair Work complaints by former senior executives
Employment 2024-07-23 11:35 pm By Christine Caulfield

Two former executives of Rebel Sports owner Super Retail Group have filed action in the Fair Work Commission alleging contraventions related to their dismissal from the company.

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Investor class action can’t see Virgin’s advice from Herbert Smith Freehills
Class Actions 2024-07-23 11:40 pm By Cindy Cameronne

A judge has rejected arguments that Virgin Australia waived legal professional privilege over advice from Herbert Smith Freehills by claiming in a class action defence that it had a reasonable belief that statements in a prospectus for a $324 million capital raising were not misleading.

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Negligence case against Malouf Solicitors over ‘doomed to fail’ cases thrown out
Professional Negligence 2024-07-23 11:01 pm By Cat Fredenburgh

A medical imaging company has lost its negligence case alleging Malouf Solicitors failed to advise it that its defences in District Court proceedings were doomed to fail, with a judge finding the company’s executives were informed of the risks of defending the case.

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Four people charged over alleged Telegram ‘pump and dump’ scheme
White Collar 2024-07-23 11:43 pm By Cindy Cameronne

Four people have been charged with conspiracy to commit market rigging and false trading after an ASIC investigation into an alleged scheme organised on social media app Telegram to pump shares in Australian stocks and dump them at inflated prices. 

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