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Bluescope lawyers get dressing down by judge for ‘inappropriate exchange’ with chambers
Employment 2021-02-11 3:06 pm By Christine Caulfield

Lawyers representing Bluescope in an appeal of a Fair Work case copped a scolding by a judge Thursday for sending multiple emails to his chambers “pressuring” his associate to provide dates for a hearing.

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Barrister turns tables on vision-impaired Daily Telegraph legal team in case over deaf lawyer
Defamation 2021-02-11 1:31 pm By Christine Caulfield

A barrister for a Sydney criminal lawyer who wears hearing aids and is suing News Corp’s Nationwide News over allegedly defamatory Daily Telegraph articles referring to his profound deafness has likened the stories to accusing bespectacled lawyers of being blind.

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Ex-Freedom Foods GC strikes back at serious misconduct claims
Employment 2021-02-10 6:37 pm By Spencer Fowler Steen

A former Freedom Foods group general counsel is seeking aggravated damages from the food and beverage manufacturer for claiming in court filings that she was fired for serious misconduct.

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Qantas told pilot he was too old for redundancy offer, lawsuit says
Employment 2021-02-10 5:43 pm By Spencer Fowler Steen

A 64-year-old Qantas pilot who was stood down as part of the airline’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic has launched a lawsuit accusing Qantas of unlawful discrimination for only providing voluntary redundancy packages to employees younger than 63 years old.

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On The Run won’t file ‘test case’ appeal of class closure judgment
Class Actions 2021-02-10 4:05 pm By Miklos Bolza

The employing entity behind convenience store chain On the Run has said it will not appeal a judgment tossing a class closure bid prior to mediation, saying that it did not want to launch a “test case” in the Federal Court.

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‘I’m not a cat’: Kitten filter on lawyer shows perils of virtual hearings
COVID-19 2021-02-10 1:46 pm By Miklos Bolza

A clip of a US lawyer whose face is obscured by a kitten filter during an online court hearing shows the pitfalls of virtual hearings, and how judges have graciously adapted to the new reality.

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Crown Resorts not suitable to run Barangaroo casino, damning report says
Crown Resorts 2021-02-09 11:38 pm By Christine Caulfield

Crown Resorts should not have a licence to run the Barangaroo casino in Sydney after facilitating money laundering and partnering with junket operators linked to organised crime, a report following the NSW gaming authority inquiry has found.

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Deloitte admits it has ‘expectation’ partners will retire at 62
Accounting 2021-02-09 9:10 pm By Miklos Bolza

Accounting giant Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu has admitted in a Federal Court defence that it expects its partners to retire at the age of 62, but it says there is no obligation for partners to depart the firm at that age.

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Tandem gets OK to file rare class action cross-claims against group members
Class Actions 2021-02-09 3:31 pm By Miklos Bolza

A judge has allowed a unit of recruitment firm Tandem to file cross-claims against individual group members in an underpayment class action, in a rare move that may spark important changes in representative proceedings.

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Fairfax out of pocket $2.4M after being hit with indemnity costs in Elaine Stead defamation case
Defamation 2021-02-08 2:42 pm By Miklos Bolza

Nine-owned Fairfax will have to pay out over $2 million in legal fees after being hit with indemnity costs on top of a $280,000 judgment in its defamation spat with venture capitalist Dr Elaine Stead for its “Micawber-like” approach to the case.

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