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Hells Angels takes IP fight with Redbubble to High Court
Intellectual Property 2024-03-22 11:14 pm By Cat Fredenburgh

Hells Angels has asked the High Court to reinstate an award of $78,000 for online marketplace Redbubble’s infringement of its trade marks, after the Full Court found it was owed just $100 in nominal damages.

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‘I worked like a navvy’: Judge slams TWU for eleventh hour claim against Qantas
Employment 2024-03-18 4:23 pm By Sam Matthews

A judge has chided the Transport Workers Union for announcing at the start of trial that it intends to seek lost union dues from Qantas, as a hearing kicked off over the amount of compensation the airline owes to ground crew, whose jobs were illegally outsourced at the peak of the COVID-19 pandemic. 

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Former AFL player loses COVID-19 vaccine case against Channel 9
COVID-19 2024-03-14 10:02 pm By Christine Caulfield

Former AFL player and sports presenter Warren Tredea has failed in his $1.5 million breach of contract case against Channel 9, which terminated an agreement with him for refusing to have a COVID-19 vaccine.

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In victory for class action, High Court says Qld council must repay levies
High Court 2024-03-13 4:15 pm By Sam Matthews

The High Court has handed a win to a class action on behalf of Queensland ratepayers who were wrongly charged levies over a period of six years, rejecting the local council’s argument that the levies were put to good use.

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High Court clarifies procedural fairness in corruption cases, finds IBAC mostly followed rules
Public Corruption 2024-03-13 11:39 pm By Christine Caulfield

IBAC has been vindicated by the High Court in a ruling that found Victoria’s anti-corruption agency had largely complied with its obligations to provide a public body and a senior officer with a reasonable opportunity to respond to adverse material in an investigation over unauthorised email access.

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High Court to decide if employers can be on hook for damages for psychiatric injury
High Court 2024-03-12 3:35 pm By Cindy Cameronne

The High Court has agreed to weigh in on whether employers should be on the hook for damages if they act negligently when dismissing a worker, granting special leave to a former employee at not-for-profit Vision Australia whose $1.4 million damages award was overturned on appeal. 

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High Court won’t touch ruling on backdated wage increases
Employment 2024-03-12 11:53 pm By Christine Caulfield

A special leave application by the Catholic diocese fighting to overturn a Full Federal Court judgment that two school teachers were entitled to backdated pay rises has failed.

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High Court to hear KPMG’s class action transfer fight
High Court 2024-03-08 2:21 pm By Christine Caulfield

KPMG has won its application for the High Court to weigh in on the relevance of a contingency fee order in determining a bid to transfer a shareholder class action from Victoria to NSW.

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Full Court says climate change wrongly omitted from native title ruling on Santos gas project
Climate change 2024-03-06 10:35 pm By Cat Fredenburgh

The Full Federal Court has found a native title tribunal failed to consider climate change when making a finding in relation to four new petroleum production leases for Santos’ Narrabri gas project in New South Wales.

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Investigation of DPP complaint against Supreme Court judge Lex Lasry discontinued
Legal Ethics 2024-03-04 11:20 pm By Christine Caulfield

Victoria’s judicial watchdog has dropped its investigation of a complaint against Supreme Court Justice Lex Lasry by the Director of Public Prosecutions, Kerri Judd SC, who accused the judge of making comments attacking her professional integrity.

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