The High Court has found that requiring stateless refugees to wear ankle bracelets and comply with curfews to prevent future offending is unconstitutional.
Still feeling aftershocks from last year’s tax leaks scandal, PricewaterhouseCoopers has lost seven partners to the risk and regulatory team of Big Six law firm MinterEllison.
Carnival has settled a class action on behalf of passengers on a seven-day South Pacific voyage that became the “cruise from hell” when their vessel sailed into a Category 5 cyclone.
A Pauline Hanson tweet that told Greens Senator Mehreen Faruqi to “piss off back to Pakistan” fell afoul of the Racial Discrimination Act, with a judge calling it “Islamophobic” and “a strong form of racism”.
A “time poor” judge’s extensive copying and pasting of submissions and an offensive tweet by senator Pauline Hanson were at the centre of the week’s biggest litigation wins.
Johnson Winter Slattery has bolstered the ranks of its industrial relations and employment team, luring a new partner and special counsel away from Corrs Chambers Westgarth.
As Mineral Resources and WiseTech face shareholder glare over accusations levelled at their billionaire bosses, it is Herbert Smith Freehills that their embattled boards have turned to.
Homes Victoria says the decision to demolish public housing towers in Melbourne — now the subject of a class action — took residents’ human rights into account, but has no documents to show it.
Years of hard fought litigation by axed Qantas ground crew and generic drug maker Sandoz ended in victory this week, thanks to legal eagles from Maurice Blackburn and Ashurst and their counsel. The week opened with a bang with a decision from Federal Court Justice Michael Lee in three landmark test cases by the Transport…
Herbert Smith Freehills has lured two lateral partners to bolster its projects, energy and infrastructure practice in Australia.