A former director of investment house Washington H. Soul Pattinson has won a damages payout of over $1.1 million after a court found that the ASX 100-listed company failed to pay her entitlements following termination of her employment without notice.
A Victoria Supreme Court judge has given the greenlight to a $5.7 million settlement in a class action brought by those injured during a 2016 stampede at the Falls Music and Arts Festival.
Two casinos owned by Crown Resorts have been handed a Federal Court victory in their $100 million battle with the Australian Taxation Office, with a judge ruling that GST assessments made by the ATO were “excessive”.
Human resource management company Harrier Group has been sued by its former managing director and CEO, who alleges she was bullied and overworked.
A national personal injury firm has been hit with a class action over its allegedly unreasonable legal fees.
Moray & Agnew has partially won its bid to reclaim over $260,000 in unpaid costs after its client was wound up amid a long-running legal battle with construction company Probuild.
Two Victorian Indigenous groups are facing off in a intellectual property battle over an anthropological research report used in a boundary variation bid lodged by one of the groups.
Evidence of an outdated management approach and bullying — which included threatening defamation proceedings against two junior lawyers that complained about her — appear to be responsible for the ousting of a former senior Piper Alderman partner, not her sex, a judge has found.
A group of teenagers has launched a class action against the Commonwealth Minister for the Environment in a bid to stop the proposed extension of a northern NSW coal mine.
The judge overseeing a class action against GetSwift has refused to disqualify himself from the proceedings, rejecting claims that he could not be seen to approach the case with an “impartial mind” and taking a passing shot at the logistics company’s use of the Americanism “recuse” in its application.