The Club of United Business — a private members club catering to entrepreneurs — has sued a former membership manager who allegedly used confidential information about clients in order to set up a competing professional networking business.
WA Attorney-General John Quigley wants a second go at his trial testimony in a defamation case brought by mining magnate Clive Palmer, admitting he made “mistakes” while giving evidence in the witness box.
In a victory for Victorian independent candidate Zoe Daniel, the state’s Supreme Court has found that promotional signs displayed on lawns did not fall foul of a local council ban on unauthorised displays.
The High Court will hear a challenge by Western Power to an appeals court judgment which found that the state-owned electricity supplier breached its duty of care to inspect power poles on private land and was partly liable for property damage from the 2014 Perth Hills bushfire.
The will of “Australia’s worst landlord” — Melbourne businessman Frank Cassar — was forged in a conspiracy by his widow, daughter and son who feared losing his multimillion dollar business empire after his death, a court has found.
The owner of a Whitsundays resort has been ordered to hand over $430,738 to an employee whose roommate in staff accommodation allegedly urinated on him after a night of drinking.
A high profile Tasmanian lawyer has been found guilty of professional misconduct for an “ongoing failure” to progress his client’s case or respond to her questions for two and a half decades.
Doral Mineral Sands has successfully blocked a pre-action discovery bid by an irate shareholder over losses stemming from the $32 million Keysbrook mine sale, with the Western Australia Supreme Court finding that any case against Doral was “mere assertion, conjecture or suspicion”
The Victorian Auditor-General Andrew Greaves and the State of Victoria are being sued by a former executive who says she was overworked to the point of mental breakdown during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Cricket Tasmania has denied allegations by a former front receptionist that she was the victim of sexual harassment by Australian cricket players and senior managers, and says she has not suffered loss as a result of any alleged misbehaviour.