Global law firm Jones Day has recruited two partners for its growing energy practice, including a former Ashurst partner.
A judge has order ACBF Funeral Plans to pay $1.2 million for misleading its First Nations customers, a penalty less than one-fifth the fine sought by ASIC.
EY has responded to a lawsuit by a former Asia Pacific director who claims she was fired after making complaints of bullying, harassment and discrimination.
ASIC has brought court action against Westpac for allegedly dropping the ball on financial hardship claims by customers, some of whom had property seized or declared bankruptcy while waiting for a response from the Big Four bank.
A Melbourne lawyer has been found guilty of two counts of contempt of court for failing to share logins and passwords to his firm’s computer records to an auditor appointed by Victoria’s legal watchdog.
The Albanese government has unveiled its latest industrial relations bill to set minimum conditions for the gig economy and empower the workplace umpire to order equal pay for labour hire workers.
Former SAS soldier Ben Roberts-Smith should pay all costs reasonably incurred by Fairfax in successfully defending itself in his defamation case, which took more than 100 trial days and was an abuse of process, a court has heard.
A solar cell patent at the heart of intellectual property litigation brought by South Korean technology giant Hanwha has been found invalid.
Agrochemical giant Monsanto is digging in for a fight in a class action over its alleged carcinogenic weed killer, Roundup, having refused to budge in mediation despite a $16 billion settlement in the US.
Two former Ferrier Hodgson partners had conflicts of interest when they accepted appointments as administrators of a failed pig farm operation, an appeals court has found, but their remuneration won’t take a hit as a result.