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Full Court tosses James Ashby’s appeal over $4.5M legal bill
Appeals 2022-05-12 11:29 pm By Cat Fredenburgh

One Nation chief-of-staff James Ashby has failed to revive his lawsuit alleging the federal government breached the Fair Work Act by not paying his $4.5 million legal bill stemming from a dropped sexual harassment case against former House speaker Peter Slipper.

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Judge signs off on $1.5M penalty against Westpac for unsolicited insurance
Allens 2022-04-07 6:03 pm By Cat Fredenburgh

A judge has hit Westpac with a $1.5 million penalty for misleading 141 customers into believing they had purchased add-on insurance.

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J&J won’t contest follow-on pelvic mesh class action
Bret Walker 2022-04-04 5:15 pm By Cat Fredenburgh

An additional 1,200 women who were implanted with defective pelvic mesh devices will be eligible for compensation after Johnson & Johnson unit Ethicon agreed that findings in an earlier class action which it unsuccessfully fought all the way to the High Court should apply to a follow-on class action.

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Westpac agrees to pay $1.5M to settle ASIC case over unsolicited insurance
Allens 2022-04-04 1:51 pm By Cat Fredenburgh

Westpac has agreed to pay $1.5 million to settle proceedings brought by ASIC for misleading 141 customers into believing they had purchased add-on insurance.

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Ten to face sex discrimination claims in journalist’s harassment lawsuit
Corrs Chambers Westgarth 2022-03-21 10:37 am By Miklos Bolza

Journalist Tegan George will add sex discrimination claims against Network Ten to her lawsuit that alleges harassment and bullying by political journalist Peter van Onselen.

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John Ibrahim’s son appeals defamation loss over Sunday Telegraph article
Appeals 2022-03-15 7:08 pm By Sam Matthews

The son of infamous Kings Cross personality John Ibrahim is challenging a recent judgment clearing publisher Nationwide News and reporter Brenden Hills of defamation over a “sensationalist and voyeuristic” Sunday Telegraph story.

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Settlement talks in Astora pelvic mesh class action ‘well advanced’
AJB Stevens 2022-03-03 9:57 pm By Miklos Bolza

Settlement talks in a class action brought by Shine Lawyers against Astora Women’s Health on behalf of women injured by allegedly defective pelvic mesh products are “well advanced”, while mediation in two similar actions is ongoing, a court has heard.

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Sunday Telegraph wins defamation case brought by John Ibrahim’s son
Dauid Sibtain 2022-03-01 6:01 pm By Bianca Hrovat

A judge has thrown out a defamation case brought by the son of infamous Kings Cross personality John Ibrahim against publisher Nationwide News over a “sensationalist and voyeuristic” Sunday Telegraph story.

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Ten denies Peter van Onselen harassed journalist on Twitter
Corrs Chambers Westgarth 2022-02-28 9:52 pm By Miklos Bolza

Network Ten has denied claims that high profile political reporter Peter van Onselen harassed, ignored and humiliated journalist Tegan George.

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Norton Rose wins appeal against sacked partner, but faulted for ‘serious error in judgment’
Appeals 2021-11-26 7:14 pm By Bianca Hrovat

Law firm Norton Rose Fulbright has won its appeal of a $160,000 judgment in favour of former partner Thomas Martin, with the Full Federal Court finding Martin’s allegations of deceit arose from “an excess of suspicion” and “causal connections of the most tenuous kind”.

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