A former Norton Rose employment partner in litigation with the firm over his firing has lost his bid to move next week’s scheduled mediation out of Sydney.
The class actions against car companies over defective Takata airbags are expected to dramatically grow after the first-of-its-kind mandatory recall announced by the government Wednesday.
A judge in the Supreme Court of Victoria hearing a case brought by Cargill Australia alleging fraudulent concealment in the $420 million sale of malt producer Joe White Maltings by Viterra Malt Pty Ltd won’t loosen the reins on lawyers who have spent “millions of dollars” on discovery.
Slater & Gordon will face the Fair Work Commission in a dispute with the Australian Services Union after a “very unsatisfactory meeting” over the law firm’s restructuring plans.
Vodafone will have to cough up $295,000 to cover the legal bills of the ACCC and Telstra after falling short in its bid for judicial review of an ACCC decision not to declare a domestic mobile roaming service.
Medibank CEO Craig Drummond said Monday the private health insurer was “disappointed” that the ACCC was appealing its loss in a consumer case accusing the insurer of unconscionable conduct in advising members about coverage limits.
It warned offenders, and then it won its first case. Now with the one-year anniversary of laws protecting small businesses from unfair contracts ticking over, expect the consumer regulator to take no prisoners, lawyers say.
Google Inc. has hit back at the European Union for leveling a €2.4 billion antitrust fine, saying in a court filing released Monday that the decision was based on a “novel theory” that did not prove an injury to rivals.
Lawyers are advising large companies to look hard at their business plans to keep on the good side of the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission now that the enforcer has a new arsenal to deploy.
The likes of Google, Facebook and Amazon could find themselves in the crosshairs of a newly empowered Australian competition regulator, and Rod Sims wants to move fast, the chairman told Lawyerly.