Macquarie Bank is challenging a ruling that it pay $330,000 in pecuniary penalties after it was found to have underpaid a group of former financial advisers because of a “defective and deficient” payment system.
Investment house Washington H. Soul Pattinson is fighting a ruling that it owes its former finance director over $1.1 million in damages after the ASX 100-listed firm terminated the executive without notice and failed to pay out entitlements.
A judge has allowed a unit of recruitment firm Tandem to file cross-claims against individual group members in an underpayment class action, in a rare move that may spark important changes in representative proceedings.
A judge has rejected a class closure order application by the lead applicants in a class action against convenience store chain On The Run ahead of mediation, finding that the court does not have power to make such an order at a “relatively early” stage in a class action.
RMIT has bit back at a $2.9 million lawsuit by an indigenous law professor who claims the university fired him for complaining about “racially and sexually discriminatory remarks” allegedly made by one of the university’s senior officials, saying he plunged $21,000 of RMIT’s funds into research for a potential private global sake and baby formula venture.
Law firm Piper Alderman has filed a lawsuit seeking payment of an alleged debt against a former senior partner who accused the firm of sex discrimination.
A former HWL Ebsworth partner claims the firm and managing partner Juan Martinez have failed to pay her money she is owed because she did not support the law firm’s aborted plan to go public.
Andrew Hopkins has resigned from his position as group CEO of automotive repair firm AMA and has discontinued his lawsuit against the company despite a Federal Court injunction barring his dismissal amid allegations of fraud.
A judge has rejected a judicial review request by One Nation chief-of-staff James Ashby who sought to have the Commonwealth foot the bill for nearly $4.5 million in legal costs stemming from a dropped sexual harassment case against former House speaker Peter Slipper.
Automotive firm AMA Group will seek to discharge an injunction preventing it from dismissing a CEO who has been accused of defrauding the company of “hundreds of thousands of dollars” and damaging its reputation with major partners.