The High Court has rejected a liquidator’s appeal arguing that two NSW printing press companies’ joint right to sue could be pooled to pay off debts for the entire corporate group.
The High Court has agreed to hear NSW Forestry’s challenge to a decision that found it could be sued by an environmental group for allegedly breaching environmental laws, a case that raises questions about standing in civil enforcement proceedings.
The High Court has agreed to weigh in on the genuine redundancy exclusion under unfair dismissal laws, taking up an appeal of a Federal Court ruling that found employers must first consider redeployment.
The High Court has declined to grant special leave to a former HWL Ebsworth client seeking to revive a decision that found the law firm’s bad advice over property in Parramatta’s ‘Auto Alley’ cost it $2 million.
Hospitality giant Mantle Group is stuck with a decision that found it systematically underpaid employees, after failing to convince the High Court that review was warranted because “harsh” comments made by the Fair Work Commission gave rise to the appearance of bias.
A leading industrial and employment firm has mounted a High Court challenge to the CFMEU administration on behalf of two of the union’s former leaders, who argue the legislation that facilitated the administration was unconstitutional.
A judge has allowed Aristocrat to appeal a judge’s rejection of its application to patent its Lightning Link poker machine, citing novel questions raised by an equally split High Court decision about the patentability of its invention.
The High Court has been asked to weigh in on whether the Federal Court’s prevailing approach to the disclosure requirements of the Patents Act “imposes too great a burden” on patent applicants.
A former debt collector who accused the ATO of using heavy handed debt collection tactics against taxpayers has asked the High Court to overrule a decision that found he was not immune from prosecution. In a decision handed down in June, the South Australia Court of Appeal dismissed Richard Boyle’s second bid for immunity from…
The High Court has rejected an appeal by Captain Cook College of a finding that it engaged in systemic unconscionable conduct by enrolling thousands of unsuitable students, finding courts are not constrained by factors the consumer law says it “may consider” in deciding if conduct rises to the level of unconscionability.