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Wotton + Kearney opens Adelaide office, nabs Sparke Helmore special counsel
Business of Law 2022-05-25 10:09 pm By Cindy Cameronne Sydney

Insurance law firm Wotton + Kearney has opened its seventh office across Australia and New Zealand, expanding into Adelaide to meet local client demand and allow lawyers to work from their home town after the pandemic. 

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ANZ ordered to hand over documents in long-running pregnancy discrimination case
ANZ 2022-05-25 7:21 pm By Sam Matthews Melbourne

A former ANZ employee has won her bid to discover a range of documents in her long-running dispute with the bank over alleged discrimination related to her pregnancies with her first two children.

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Twigg family sues Pitcher Partners for $127M
Accounting 2022-05-25 6:54 pm By Cindy Cameronne Sydney

The Twigg family has hit accounting firm Pitcher Partners with a lawsuit claiming it helped Max Twigg, race car driver and former owner of the Byron Bay Hotel, misappropriate $127.8 million in family trust money for himself.

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‘Chickens coming home to roost’: NSW faces multiplying claims by junior doctors
Catherine Gleeson 2022-05-25 3:53 pm By Sam Matthews Melbourne

The New South Wales government has pushed to consolidate a class action accusing it of failing to pay overtime hours to junior doctors with multiplying industrial actions filed by Australian Salaried Medical Officers’ Federation.

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Former Noumi GC drops unfair dismissal lawsuit
Andrew Gotting 2022-05-25 1:57 pm By Cindy Cameronne Sydney

Former secretary and general counsel for Noumi, formerly known as Freedom Foods, has dropped her unfair dismissal lawsuit after the maker of the popular Vitalife and MilkLab products tossed claims accusing her of serious misconduct. 

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Man suing judge for unlawful imprisonment blasts ‘hopeless’ defence
Australian Government Solicitor 2022-05-24 8:13 pm By Cindy Cameronne Sydney

The state of Queensland has brought a “hopeless” defence in a $2.5 million suit alleging a Federal Circuit judge unlawfully imprisoned a Queensland man for contempt after he failed to comply with an order for particulars, a court has heard.

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Forex Capital liquidators win ‘urgent’ order for $69.5M distribution to customers
ASIC 2022-05-24 5:42 pm By Cindy Cameronne Sydney

Forex Capital Trading liquidators have won an “urgent” bid for orders allowing them to distribute $69.5 million to 8,600 former customers of the derivatives trader which allegedly gave misleading advice on products described as “little more than gambling”.

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Insurer Bond & Credit Company points finger at Greensill Group
Clyde & Co. 2022-05-24 3:01 pm By Christine Caulfield

Insurer Bond & Credit Company has denied it owes damages over the collapse of the Greensill group, saying it issued a trade credit policy at the centre of four lawsuits because the supply chain financing firm concealed its risks and made fraudulent misrepresentations.

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Victoria’s triple-zero operator faces class action investigation
Class Actions 2022-05-24 10:30 am By Cat Fredenburgh Melbourne

Victoria’s Emergency Services Telecommunications Authority may be hit with a class action over alleged systemic failures in its ambulance call handling operations that may have led to at least 15 deaths.

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Noumi drops serious misconduct claims against former GC
Andrew Gotting 2022-05-23 9:14 pm By Cindy Cameronne Sydney

Noumi, the company formerly known as Freedom Foods, has dropped defence claims that it was entitled to sack its former secretary and group general counsel for serious misconduct.

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