Practice Areas

The publisher of the Herald Sun has won a bid to include the drug-related arrest of a prominent Melbourne lawyer in its “bad reputation” defence to the solicitor’s defamation action.

The ACCC’s rejection of a regional network arrangement between Telstra and TPG was “confusing” and the telecos might be free to vary the transaction, says a judge who is overseeing a challenge to the competition regulator’s decision.

Fox News CEO Lachlan Murdoch has cited the “editorial interference” of Private Media chairman Eric Beecher and CEO Will Hayward in a successful bid to join them as defendants in his defamation case against the Crikey publisher over an article in June last year.

High-profile teal independent Monique Ryan has been hit with a lawsuit by her ex-chief of staff and political activist Sally Rugg, who alleges her former boss breached protections in the Fair Work Act during her employment. 

A judge has found a BHP mine took adverse action against a labour hire worker by excluding him from entering a Queensland mine after he complained about safety, rejecting arguments that the mine could not take adverse action because it did not employ the worker directly.

US multinational firm K&L Gates has lured a partner and four solicitors from HWL Ebsworth for its growing corporate practice, just a month after poaching three other partners from the firm.

A judge has approved a $5.8 million settlement in an underpayments class action against convenience store chain On The Run despite what she said was the class action law firm’s “extraordinary” reason for reaching the deal.

From the ongoing saga of the high-profile Christian Porter action against the ABC to “backyard” litigation testing the serious harm bar, defamation cases made headlines in 2022, with winners and losers alike shelling out millions to lawyers to protect their reputations.

The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission has begun a sweep of social media sweep over concerns about “manipulative marketing techniques” employed by influencers.

The Australian Law Reform Commission has recommended the government abolish exceptions for religious schools in federal anti-discrimination legislation, but permit schools to give preference to prospective applicants on religious grounds.