Bunnings’ recent success in a privacy case concerning its use of facial recognition technology was only a “narrow victory” and should not be taken as a “green light” to businesses to follow suit, experts have told Lawyerly.
Criminal barrister Mark Dennis SC has been found dead at his inner-west Sydney home just weeks after being charged with possessing, importing and transmitting child abuse material.
A leading M&A lawyer from Herbert Smith Freehills has made the jump to Ashurst, bolstering the firm’s corporate offering.
Former senator Linda Reynolds’ decision to accept the Commonwealth’s help in picking up her legal tab in litigation by staffer Brittany Higgins came with the condition that the government might take control of her defence, a court has been told.
A judge has tossed a challenge by the Palestine Action Group to the NSW government’s decision to declare the visit of Israeli President Isaac Herzog a ‘major event’ triggering new protest rules enacted in the wake of the Bondi massacre.
The state of Victoria has given fast-track approval to two battery energy storage systems, the latest renewable projects expedited through the state’s Development Facilitation Program.
Star Entertainment has come up short in its $4 million case against Buildcorp Group over alleged defective construction and refurbishment work on the gambling giant’s Sydney casino.
An appeals court has thrown out mining billionaire and AMCI co-founder Hans Mende’s challenge to a ruling that found his decision to sack the group’s Australian managing director was invalid.
A criminal barrister who has taken heat for his criticism of Israel has been sworn in as a judge on the NSW Supreme Court, with the new judge describing the importance of the justice system in a time “where evidence is often ignored or derided and truth is whatever it is called to be”.
A leading construction and infrastructure lawyer with major projects and disputes experience will head up Jones Day’s Sydney office as one of the firm’s new partners-in-charge.