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DRA Global can’t suppress ‘scandalous’ details from ex-CEO’s $9M lawsuit
Andrew Pollock 2023-05-22 5:53 pm By Cindy Cameronne

DRA Global has failed to keep under wraps passages from its former CEO’s lawsuit which the engineering firm argued would cause “serious reputational and commercial harm” if published.

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Lawyer must pay costs for appeal that should never have been filed, Full Court says
Andrew Pollock 2021-05-11 2:53 pm By Christine Caulfield

An employment solicitor representing a sacked Jetstar pilot must pay the airline’s legal costs in defending an appeal application “that ought never to have been made”, an appeals court has found.

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Irate judge says lawyers should personally face costs for signing off on deficient cases
Andrew Pollock 2021-03-05 4:55 pm By Christine Caulfield

Certification of pleadings in legal action is not a formality that needs to be “ticked off”, and solicitors who put their signature to improperly pleaded cases should face adverse costs, an irritated appeals judge has said.

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Qantas employee fired for viewing porn on company iPad loses appeal
Andrew Pollock 2020-11-09 4:38 pm By Spencer Fowler Steen

A 59-year-old Qantas engineer who used his company-issued iPad to view pornographic material while at work has lost his unfair dismissal appeal.

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Qantas worker caught watching porn on company iPad not unfairly dismissed, FWC says
Andrew Pollock 2020-07-07 8:00 pm By Alison Eveleigh

A Qantas engineer who used his company-issued iPad to access pornographic material while at work has lost his unfair dismissal case.

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Firefighters agreement doesn’t discriminate against women, FWC says
Andrew Pollock 2019-10-22 9:15 pm By Miklos Bolza

The Federal Government has lost a challenge raising discrimination concerns around a Fair Work Commission-approved enterprise agreement covering metropolitan firefighters in Victoria, with an FWC review panel finding its appeal lacked merit.

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