A judge and former Channel 7 journalist has disqualified herself from hearing a case against a bankrupt businessman after finding a “reasonable observer” might think she personally believed allegations levelled against him in a Today Tonight program.
Qantas has lost a case brought by the Transport Workers Union that challenged the airline’s decision to axe 2,000 staff and replace them with “insecure” labour hire workers, with a judge finding Qantas boss Andrew David outsourced ground operations partly to prevent employees engaging in industrial action.
The Victorian Government has told a judge the COVID-19 restrictions imposed during its extended lockdown last year did not infringe on the freedom of political communication, as trial kicked off in a protestor’s lawsuit challenging the stay-at-home orders.
A leading silk who has been representing Crown Resorts in royal commission and class action proceedings, as well as ASIC in its high-stakes insider trading case against Westpac, has been elevated to the Victoria Supreme Court.
While employers cannot force employees to get a COVID-19 vaccine, law firms are launching campaigns to encourage staff to sign up for the jab.
Qantas has resolved a lawsuit brought by the 64-year-old son of former chairman Sir Lenox Hewitt who alleged the airline’s policy of providing voluntary redundancy only to employees under 63 years of age was discriminatory.
A judge has hit women’s activewear company Lorna Jane with a $5 million penalty for representing to consumers during the height of the coronavirus crisis last year that its activewear would protect them from viruses including COVID-19.
The director of the Forum Group companies accused of a $360 million fraud involving at least three major banks can’t return to Australia from Greece because he has COVID-19, his lawyer has told the Federal Court.
A Federal Court judge has admonished Federal Circuit Court Judge Sandy Street for “a complete lack of intellectual engagement” in considering whether an Indian migrant engaged in a sham marriage in order to stay in Australia.
A Federal Court judge has said he will be “quite unimpressed” with 11th hour bids to notify state Attorneys-General of constitutional disputes in a wrongful imprisonment lawsuit against Federal Circuit Court Judge Salvatore Vasta, ordering the parties to act swiftly to let the states intervene in the case.