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A judge has partially struck out mining magnate Clive Palmer’s defence to WA Premier Mark McGowan’s defamation claim over statements which allegedly accused the premier of corruption, abusing his position and lying about the decision to close the state’s borders at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic last year.
The director of building company Modscape is fighting to access Gadens’ advice concerning an allegedly false and malicious letter sent to the Victorian Building Authority which questioned his financial probity.
Deloitte has failed to set aside a request for documents recording talks with partners about retirement after they turned 62, in a closely watched age discrimination lawsuit challenging the accounting firm’s mandatory retirement policy.
NSW public sector employees have lost their bid for a 2.5 per cent salary increase, with an appeals court upholding a decision which found the economy would be better served by public spending on infrastructure investment than public service salaries.
NSW Health has hit back at a class action accusing it of failing to pay overtime hours to junior doctors, saying that because they did not submit an overtime claim they were taken to have worked the additional hours “of their own volition”.
A criminal defence lawyer who represented convicted criminal Salim Mehajer has won court approval to join the editor of the Sydney Morning Herald to her defamation lawsuit over an article and social media posts that allegedly implied she breached her oath as a solicitor by being romantically involved with clients.
A judge overseeing Ben Roberts-Smith's defamation case against Fairfax has refused a bid by the publisher to bolster its defence with further allegations of criminal conduct by the soldier, who told the court Friday former Governor-General Quentin Bryce will give evidence for him at the upcoming trial.
Australian regenerative medicine company Mesoblast faces a shareholder class action over disclosures related to its Remestemcel-L treatment for COVID-19 complications.
Ben Roberts-Smith has raised “serious concerns” in his defamation case against Fairfax that the media company may have unlawfully published classified material he allegedly buried in his backyard, with the war veteran asking for an explanation of where it came from.
A judge has ordered the applicant in a shareholder class action against former Arrium directors and KPMG over allegedly misleading statements made ahead of Arrium’s $754 million capital raising in 2014 to explain how the amount by which the mining company’s assets were allegedly overvalued was calculated.